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p. p. of Tread.

arked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes. [Poetic] Do I look as if I were crow-trodden Beau. & FL.

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

Trodden by buskins; pertaining to tragedy. "The buskined stage." Milton.

The termination of the past participle of many strong verbs; as, in broken, gotten, trodden.

Untrodden. [R.] Hudibras. -- In"vi*ous*ness, n. [R.]

run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess. Despised and trodden down of all that overran. Spenser.

To turn pale; to lose color or luster. Whittier. Apt to pale at a trodden worm. Mrs. Browning.

A trodden way; a footway. The dewy paths of meadows we will tread. Dryden.

Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods. Trough the heavens' wide, pathless way. Milton.

a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Milton. Pavement teeth (Zoöl.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement.

Aspen. -- Quaking bog, a bog of forming peat so saturated with water that it shakes when trodden upon. -- Quaking grass. (Bot.) (a) One of several grasses of the genus Briza, having slender-stalked and pendulous ovate spikelets, which quake and rattle in the wind. Briza maxima is the large quaking grass; B. media and…

hat which appears rich, sumptuous, precious, or the like. The riche of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Milton.

al grass. See under Vernal. -- Spring gun, a firearm disharged by a spring, when this is trodden upon or is otherwise moved. -- Spring hook (Locomotive Engines), one of the hooks which fix the driving-wheel spring to the frame. -- Spring latch, a latch that fastens with a spring.

from Stamp, v. Stamping ground, a place frequented, and much trodden, by animals, wild or domesticated; hence (Colloq.), the scene of one's labors or exploits; also, one's favorite resort. [U.S.] -- Stamping machine, a machine for forming metallic articles or impressions by stamping. -- Stamping mill (Mining), a stamp…

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.

To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.

Low; base; abject; trodden down.

Not traveled; not trodden by passengers; as, an untraveled forest.

rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil. So glides some trodden serpent on the grass, And long behind wounded volume trails. Dryden. Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes. W. Irving.