Trace \Trace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. traced; p. pr. & vb. n.
   tracing.] [OF. tracier, F. tracer, from (assumed) LL.
   tractiare, fr.L. tractus, p. p. of trahere to draw. Cf.
   Abstract, Attract, Contract, Portratt, Tract,
   Trail, Train, Treat. ]
   1. To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially,
      to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines
      and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which
      they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced
      drawing.
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            Some faintly traced features or outline of the
            mother and the child, slowly lading into the
            twilight of the woods.                --Hawthorne.
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   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.
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            You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. --T.
                                                  Burnet.
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            I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways
            Of highest agents.                    --Milton.
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   3. Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
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            How all the way the prince on footpace traced.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   4. To copy; to imitate.
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            That servile path thou nobly dost decline,
            Of tracing word, and line by line.    --Denham.
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   5. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
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            We do tracethis alley up and down.    --Shak.
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