figurative. Moving silently and swiftly.

figurative. Silent, as if padded with wool: said of the feet or footsteps. Obsolete.

(a) stealthy in movement; (b) (see quot. 1883).

Having a soft or light tread. poetic. Used figuratively of the passage of time or the movement of incorporeal or ethereal things.

= woollen, adj. 1c. Obsolete. rare.

with silent tread.