Some faintly traced features or outline of the
mother and the child, slowly lading into the
twilight of the woods. --Hawthorne.
2. To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or
thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks,
or tokens. --Cowper.
You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. --T.
Burnet.
I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest
agents. --Milton.
3. Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
How all the way the prince on footpace traced.
--Spenser.
That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of
tracing word, and line by line. --Denham.
5. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
We do tracethis alley up and down. --Shak.