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