Stum"ble (?), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Stumbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Stumbling (?).] [OE. stumblen, stomblen; freq. of
a word akin to E. stammer. See Stammer.]
1. To trip in walking or in moving in any way
with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a
fall; to stagger because of a false step.
There stumble steeds strong and down go
all.
Chaucer.
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what
they stumble.
Prov. iv. 19.
2. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy
manner.
He stumbled up the dark avenue.
Sir W. Scott.
3. To fall into a crime or an error; to
err.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and
there is none occasion og stumbling in him.
1
John ii. 10.
4. To strike or happen (upon a person or
thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on,
upon, or against.
Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia
in a bath.
Dryden.
Forth as she waddled in the brake,
A gray goose stumbled on a snake.
C.
Smart.
Stum"ble, v. t. 1.
To cause to stumble or trip.
2. Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex;
to cause to err or to fall.
False and dazzling fires to stumble
men.
Milton.
One thing more stumbles me in the very
foundation of this hypothesis.
Locke.
Stum"ble, n. 1. A
trip in walking or running.
2. A blunder; a failure; a fall from
rectitude.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of
an honorable life.
L'Estrange.
Stum"ble (?), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Stumbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Stumbling (?).] [OE. stumblen, stomblen; freq. of
a word akin to E. stammer. See Stammer.]
1. To trip in walking or in moving in any way
with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a
fall; to stagger because of a false step.
There stumble steeds strong and down go
all.
Chaucer.
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what
they stumble.
Prov. iv. 19.
2. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy
manner.
He stumbled up the dark avenue.
Sir W. Scott.
3. To fall into a crime or an error; to
err.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and
there is none occasion og stumbling in him.
1
John ii. 10.
4. To strike or happen (upon a person or
thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on,
upon, or against.
Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia
in a bath.
Dryden.
Forth as she waddled in the brake,
A gray goose stumbled on a snake.
C.
Smart.
Stum"ble, v. t. 1.
To cause to stumble or trip.
2. Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex;
to cause to err or to fall.
False and dazzling fires to stumble
men.
Milton.
One thing more stumbles me in the very
foundation of this hypothesis.
Locke.
Stum"ble, n. 1. A
trip in walking or running.
2. A blunder; a failure; a fall from
rectitude.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of
an honorable life.
L'Estrange.
