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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.

One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law. Cowper.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

To tread or trample under foot. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu -- Con`cul*ca"tion (, n. [Obs.]

Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power. Shak.

To tread under foot; to trample. King Richard . . . caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled under foot. Knoless. Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle. Spenser.

To tread down; to trample upon. [Obs.] In hell shall they be all fortroden of devils. Chaucer.

To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. [Obs.] Shak.

To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down. The carter overridden with [i. e., by] his cart. Chaucer.

To pad; to tread upon; to trample. [Prov. Eng.]

d yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.

of the other, who is coming up on foot. Fielding. -- To ride down. (a) To ride over; to trample down in riding; to overthrow by riding against; as, to ride down an enemy. (b) (Naut.) To bear down, as on a halyard when hoisting a sail. -- To ride out (Naut.), to keep safe afloat during (a storm) while riding at ancho…

e buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet May hourly trample on their sovereign's head. Shak.

To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males. Shak. To tread on or upon. (a) To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. "Thou shalt tread upon their high places." Deut. xxxiii. 29. (b) to follow closely. "Year treads on year." Wordsworth. -- To tread upon the heels of, to follow close upon. "Dreadful consequences that…

To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it. [R.] Drayton.

hings, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves. South. [He] throws his steep flight in many an aëry wheel. Milton. A wheel within a wheel, or Wheels within wheels, a complication of circumstances, motives, etc. -- Balance wheel. See in the Vocab. --…