1. To trip in walking or moving in any way upon the legs to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall applied to any animal. A man may stumble, as well as a horse.

The way of the wicked is as darkness they know not at what they stumble. Proverbs 4 .

2. To err to slide into a crime or an error.

He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 1 John 2 .

3. To strike upon without design to fall on to light on by chance. Men often stumble upon valuable discoveries.

Ovid stumbled by some inadvertence upon Livia in a bath.

STUMBLE,

1. To obstruct in progress to cause to trip or stop.

2. To confound to puzzle to put to a nonplus to perplex.

One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.

STUMBLE, n.

1. A trip in walking or running.

2. A blunder a failure.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

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