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A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace. Milton.

ive artificial group of gastropods comprising all those which have a spiral shell and the foot attached to the base of the neck.

Having the foot united with the neck; of or pertainingto the Trachelipoda.

A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint. Far from track of men. Milton.

Having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden; as, a trackless desert. To climb the trackless mountain all unseen. Byron. -- Track"less*ly, adv.-Track"less*ness, n.

The footprint of a wild beast. [Obs.] Dryden.

A footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region; as, an Indian trail over the plains.

Having blazes, or white marks, on the fore and hind foot of one side, as if marked by trammels; -- said of a horse. [Written also trammelled.]

A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp. Blackie.

To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. Dryden. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matt. vii. 6.

To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.

To set the foot; to step. Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise. Pope. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Pope. The hard stone Under our feet, on which we tread and go. Chaucer.

The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.

endous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall. A tremendous mischief was a foot. Motley.

A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, mèlì\'dcs.

ick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble.

Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if he were trotting; trippant; -- said of an animal, as a hart, buck, and the like, used as a bearing.

A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.

Tread; footing. [Written also troad.][Obs.] Spenser.

quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time. "The limbs move diagonally in pairs in the trot." Stillman (The Horse in Motion).