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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRIP'PING, ppr. Supplanting; stumbling; falling; stepping nimbly.
1. a. Quick; nimble.
TRIP'PING, n. The act of tripping.
1. A light dance.
2. The loosing of an anchor from the ground by its cable or buoy-rope.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: characterized by a buoyant rhythm; "an easy lilting stride"; "the flute broke into a light lilting air"; "a swinging pace"; "a graceful swingy walk"; "a tripping singing measure" [syn: lilting, swinging, swingy, tripping]
2: moving easily and quickly; nimble; "the dancer was light and graceful"; "a lightsome buoyant step"; "walked with a light tripping step" [syn: light, lightsome, tripping]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Trip Trip, n. i. [imp. & p. p. Tripped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tripping.] [OE. trippen; akin to D. trippen, Dan. trippe, and E. tramp. See Tramp.] 1. To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5. This horse anon began to trip and dance. --Chaucer. Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe. --Milton. She bounded by, and tripped so light They had not time to take a steady sight. --Dryden. 2. To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe. 3. To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble. 4. Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail. ``Till his tongue trip.'' --Locke. A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble. --South. Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip, but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure. --Dryden. What? dost thou verily trip upon a word? --R. Browning.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tripping Trip"ping, a. 1. Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly. 2. (Her.) 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tripping Trip"ping, n. 1. Act of one who, or that which, trips. 2. A light dance. Other trippings to be trod of lighter toes. --Milton. 3. (Naut.) The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope. Tripping line (Naut.), a small rope attached to the topgallant or royal yard, used to trip the yard, and in lowering it to the deck; also, a line used in letting go the anchor. --Luce.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Quick, nimble, agile, nimble-footed.

Moby Thesaurus

balanced, concinnate, concinnous, delirium tremens, dream, easy, elegant, euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, facile, flowing, fluent, graceful, hallucination, hallucinosis, harmonious, measured, mind-expansion, ordered, orderly, pleasing, smooth, smooth-sounding, sweet, symmetrical