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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. characterized by a buoyant rhythm;
- Example: "an easy lilting stride"
- Example: "the flute broke into a light lilting air"
- Example: "a swinging pace"
- Example: "a graceful swingy walk"
- Example: "a tripping singing measure"
[syn: lilting, swinging, swingy, tripping]

2. moving easily and quickly; nimble;
- Example: "the dancer was light and graceful"
- Example: "a lightsome buoyant step"
- Example: "walked with a light tripping step"
[syn: light, lightsome, tripping]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Trip \Trip\ (tr[i^]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tripped (tr[i^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Tripping.] [OE. trippen; akin to D. trippen, Dan. trippe, and E. tramp. See Tramp.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] This horse anon began to trip and dance. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe. --Milton. [1913 Webster] She bounded by, and tripped so light They had not time to take a steady sight. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe. [1913 Webster] 3. To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false step; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble. --South. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] What? dost thou verily trip upon a word? --R. Browning. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tripping \Trip"ping\, a. 1. Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tripping \Trip"ping\, n. 1. Act of one who, or that which, trips. [1913 Webster] 2. A light dance. [1913 Webster] Other trippings to be trod of lighter toes. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. (Naut.) The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tripping 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "tripping": 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