Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise.
--Pope.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. --Pope.
The hard stone Under our feet, on which we tread and
go. --Chaucer.
2. To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a
cautious step.
Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep.
--Milton.
3. To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males. --Shak.
{To tread on} or {upon}.
(a) To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. ``Thou
shalt tread upon their high places.'' --Deut. xxxiii.
29.
(b) to follow closely. ``Year treads on year.''
--Wordsworth.
{To tread upon the heels of}, to follow close upon.
``Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those
allowances to sin.'' --Milton.
One woe doth tread upon another's heel. --Shak.