1.To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
2.To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
3.To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely. "Home the swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold."
4.Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination. "They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity."
To step in or To step into. (a)To walk or advance into a place or state, or to advance suddenly in. "Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had."
(b)To enter for a short time; as, I just stepped into the house.
(c)To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon easily or suddenly; as, to step into an estate.
To step out. (a)(Mil.) To increase the length, but not the rapidity, of the step, extending it to thirty-tree inches.
(b)To go out for a short distance or a short time.