·vi Walk; passage.
II. Step ·vt To set, as the foot.
III. Step ·adj To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
IV. Step ·adj Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
V. Step ·vi A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
VI. Step ·vi A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
VII. Step ·vi The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
VIII. Step ·vi A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
IX. Step ·vi Proceeding; measure; action; an Act.
X. Step ·vi An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.
XI. Step ·vt To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to Erect.
XII. Step ·vi Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
XIII. Step ·vi A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
XIV. Step ·vi A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
XV. Step ·add. ·noun At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court into an inner and an outer portion.
XVI. Step ·vi A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.
XVII. Step ·adj To Walk; to go on foot; ·esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
XVIII. Step ·vi One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
XIX. Step ·adj To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
XX. Step ·vi In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
XXI. Step ·vi The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps.