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Point :: Point (n.) Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints..

Lock Step :: Lock step () A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him..

Tabernacle :: Tabernacle (n.) A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc..

Degree :: Degree (n.) The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position.

Sequence :: Sequence (n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.

Corbiestep :: Corbiestep (n.) One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.

Interpose :: Interpose (v. i.) To step in between parties at variance; to mediate; as, the prince interposed and made peace..

Settle :: Settle (n.) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.

Within :: Within (prep.) Hence, inside the limits, reach, or influence of; not going outside of; not beyond, overstepping, exceeding, or the like..

Diminish :: Diminish (v. t.) To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh..

Flat Foot :: Flat foot () A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot..

Riser :: Riser (n.) The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread..

Initiatory :: Initiatory (a.) Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step..

Pas :: Pas (n.) A pace; a step, as in a dance..

Geordie :: Geordie (n.) A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp.

Staircase :: Stair (n.) A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another; -- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only..

Scalary :: Scalary (a.) Resembling a ladder; formed with steps.

Go :: Go (v. i.) To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to walk step by step, or leisurely..

Step :: Step (v. i.) A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder..

Outstep :: Outstep (v. t.) To exceed in stepping.

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