trippingn.
/ˈtrɪpɪŋ/ 1.
a. The action of trip v. in transitive senses.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > stumbling > act of causing
trippet1430
tripping1591
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Traspie Tripping, supplantatio.
1601 Breton (title) No Whippinge, nor Trippinge: but a kinde friendly Snippinge.
1796 Brooke's Fool of Quality (rev. ed.) I. ix. 223 The mysteries of bruising, of wrestling, and of tripping.
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xii. §2789 Martin's patent anchor..easy tripping and fishing, great lightness.
1880 Times 12 Nov. 4/4 It was only lately that Rugby school abandoned the ‘hacking’ and ‘tripping’ which made football dreaded by anxious mothers.
b. spec. in Botany: see sense 15 of the verb.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > fertilization or pollination
masculation1855
pollinization1871
pollination1873
tripping1909
1909 Bull. Bureau Plant Industry, U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 24. 8 If fertile seed is to be produced in any quantity it is necessary that a certain explosive mechanism within the flower be released. The release of this mechanism, whether it be accomplished by insects or otherwise, is popularly called ‘tripping’.
1930 Jrnl. Amer. Soc. Agronomy 22 782 When the flowers were left exposed and not tripped artificially the gain was 1:1·7 in favor of artificial tripping.
1978 Nature 7 Sept. 54/2 In artificial field bean pollination, manual tripping of open flowers is a recommended practice for increasing seed set in auto~sterile lines.
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a. The action of trip v. in transitive senses. Also tripping up; in quot. 1857 spec. the curvature of a boat's keel.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > light
trip-and-go1532
trip1585
tripping1594
trippingness1827
patting1860
skitter1959
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > stumbling
stumblinga1400
snappering1591
tripping1594
stumble1641
cespitation1654
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > action of erring
mistakinga1400
forvayingc1430
faultingc1450
erring1483
tripping1594
stumble1641
society > travel > [noun] > travelling for pleasure > go on a short trip > going on short trip
jauntinga1627
tripping1840
excursionizing1881
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > outing or excursion > [noun] > making
tripping1840
excursionizing1881
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect speech > slip of the tongue
lapse1526
lapsus linguae1668
a slip of the tongue1725
tripping1894
tongue-slip1913
1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 273 Their daintie feete in their tender birdlike trippings, enameld (as it were) the dustie ground.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1072 Answeres and oracles as touching..the tripping and stumbling of the foot.
1693 Apol. Clergy Scotl. 14 [They] are very glad when they can discover the trippings of their Adversaries.
1733 S. Knight Let. 24 Mar. in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 2 (1781) ii. 167 It is very easy to discover his trippings.
1828 T. Carlyle Goethe's Helena in Foreign Rev. 1 464 We cannot follow him through these fine warblings and trippings on the light fantastic toe.
1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 34 Tripping up the Rhine, instead of taking my place at Woodlands.
1850 E. B. Denison Rudimentary Treat. Clock & Watch Making i. liv. 77 The hook at the end of the slope will not catch the tooth as it ought to do, and two or three teeth will slip past at once: this is called tripping.
1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 31 Shear is the rising of the gunwale of a boat towards head and stern; gamber is the same on the keel; otherwise called tripping up.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 371/1 This error called ‘tripping’, is also produced if there is much space between the detent and the wheel.
1894 Forum (N.Y.) Oct. 158 Slips, hesitations, and tripping in speech, which, once made, could never be recalled.
b. spec. of drug-induced hallucinations: see 5b of the verb.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [noun] > effects of hallucinatory drugs
trip1959
freaking-out1965
acid trip1966
freak-out1966
head trip1967
tripping1968
turn-on1969
trippiness1976
1968 L. W. Robinson Assassin xii. 128 Their passion was a long one..as though they hated to come back..from the rocking, tossing, sweet trip... But no, the sweet tripping was not over.
1970 K. Platt Pushbutton Butterfly vi. 59 The girls weren't wearing brassieres... The skinnier ones just looked flat. Tripping didn't solve everything.
1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Oct. 1203/4 When Christiane F. was thirteen years old, she began to frequent a youth club run by the Protestant Church in an overcrowded district of West Berlin. There she started smoking hashish, taking ‘uppers and downers’ and ‘tripping’ on LSD.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations, as tripping-block; tripping-line n. Nautical a light line for tilting the yards (see trip v. 12); also, a line for manipulating a drogue. tripping string n. a line set by burglars to trip possible pursuers.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > drogue > line for manipulating
tripping-line1841
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > for raising, lowering, topping, or tripping yard
martnet1582
tripping-line1841
snotter1846
yard-rope1850
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > burglary > [noun] > instruments used by burglars > line to trip pursuers
tripping string1891
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. iv. 26 What doe I know, whether..the Deuill hath set any tripping-blocke before me, where I may stumble and fall?
1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. Tripping line, a line used for tripping a topgallant or royal yard in sending it down.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 260 Drogues..are towed..mouth foremost by a stout rope, a small line termed a tripping-line, being fastened to the apex.
1891 Daily News 31 Dec. 4/7 The doors..having first been securely fastened..and tripping strings having been stretched across the pathways and lawn.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
trippingadj.
That trips, in various senses.
1. Moving quickly and lightly; light-footed; nimble. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > light-footed
lightOE
light-footeda1425
lightfoot1440
feather-footed1565
tripping1567
nimble-footed1592
soft-foot1598
light-heeled1600
soft-footed1603
soft-footed1607
nimble-heeled1656
quick-foot1658
feather-heeleda1674
tickle-heeled1740
nimble-stepping1832
tripsome1846
twinkle-toed1960
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > moving lightly and quickly
winged1616
volant1650
airy1664
whisky1782
tripping1807
tripsome1890
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Ev Thou hast no trippinge trull To mince it with the now That thou mighst foote it vnto her.
1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlvi. 56 Thir tripand tyddis may tyne ws aw.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. Authors Way sig. A5v When little Tripping Maidens follow God, And leave old doting Sinners to his Rod. View more context for this quotation
a1721 M. Prior Turtle & Sparrow (1723) 37 The tripping Fauns and Fairies came.
1807 W. Scott Let. 1 Oct. (1932) I. 387 A tripping Alexandrine stanza.
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) i, in Writings I. 2 A quick, tripping footstep sounds in the deserted street.
1880 Ld. Acton Lett. to Gladstone (1904) 6 You will find his conversation, easy and tripping as it is, very inferior to his writings.
2. Stumbling, erring, sinning.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > [adjective]
scrithingOE
aberrantc1536
tripping1577
devious1633
sinuous1850
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [adjective] > lapsing or lapsed
tripping1577
delapsed1622
lapsed1638
lapsing1667
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > stumbling
stumbling1538
tripping1577
snappering1596
stumbly1890
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [adjective]
erringa1340
overseena1393
willa1400
out of one's book (also books)1549
straying1553
faulting1566
deceived1569
seek1569
tripping1577
amiss1582
mistaking1582
naught1597
errant1609
solecistical1654
solecismical1656
wrong1695
solecistic1865
1577 tr. Eusebius in H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. iii. sig. Cc.viiiv/1 The Lorde beginneth..with the bridle to checke the mouth of his tripping church.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Chevaux qui brunchent, stumbling or tripping Iades.
1646 T. Gataker Mistake Removed 31 The tripping toung sometimes tels truth.
1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent Epil. The tripping Dame cou'd find no Favour.
1903 G. Matheson Representative Men of Bible 2nd Ser. 287 Where the tripping are trodden down, where the weak are weeded out by the strong.
3. Heraldry. Of a buck, stag, etc.: Walking, and looking toward the dexter side, with three paws on the ground and one fore-paw raised; the same as passant of other animals. tripping-counter = counter-trippant adj.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [adjective] > specific movements of heraldic beasts > of buck, stag, or hind
tripping1562
counter-tripping1610
trippant1658
counter-trippant1830
1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 90 b An Vnicorne trippyng, Sable.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xiv. 131 He beareth Azure, three Buckes tripping.
c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. Tripping-counter, or counter-trippant, is when two bucks, &c. are borne trippant contraryways, as if passing each other out of the field.
1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xi. 64 Stags,..when in easy motion, they are tripping.
1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) 40 Two giraffes, with one leg raised—may be better described as tripping.
4. In names of mechanical appliances that trip or are tripped (cf. trip v. 14); as tripping-coil, tripping-lever, tripping-relay ( Cent. Dict., Suppl. 1909); tripping-valve n. see quot. 1877.
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1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tripping-valve, one moved recurrently by the contact of some other part of the machinery.
Derivatives
ˈtrippingness n.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > light
trip-and-go1532
trip1585
tripping1594
trippingness1827
patting1860
skitter1959
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > singing voice > [noun] > voice qualities
trippingness1827
veil1861
mezza voce1877
1827 Examiner 738/1 Too much of trippingness in the walk.
1890 F. Murfree Felicia xi The basso could not forgive the soprano for the trippingness of her execution.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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