Step

step, v. i. [stepped (stept), -ping.] To advance or recede by a movement of the feet; to walk a little distance; to walk gravely, slowly, or resolutely; to advance, come, or enter (with in or into). — v. To set, as the foot; to fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; set erect. — n. An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace; one remove in ascending or descending; a stair; space pa ed by the foot in walking or running; a small space or distance; gradation; degree; act of advancement; profre ion; decisive gam or advantage; a print of the oot; footprint; track; trace; vestige; gait; manner of walking; proceeding; measure; action; the round or run die of a ladder. (3lns.) A degree, — a name sometimes given to one of the larger diatonic degrees or intervals of the scale, as between 1 and 2. pi. A portable frame-work of stairs. (Naut.) A Dlock of wood, or a solid platform on the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast; a piece of wood in which another is fixed upright. (Mach.) A kind of bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves. — Step'ping-stone, n. A raised stone to keep the feet above the water or mud; a means of progre or further advancement. Step-child, step'child, n. Orig. a bereft or orphan child; the child of one's husband or wife by a former marriage. — Step'-brotb/er, n. A son of a stepsun, cube, full; moon, fdot; cow, oil father or mother by a former marriage. — -daughter, n. — fa'ther, n. A man married to one's mother after the death of one's own father. — -moth'er, n. — sis'ter, n. — son, h.