Path

n.; pl. PĀTHS (pāthz). [A-S. pādh, pad, paad, paat, D. & L. Ger. pad, O. H. Ger. phat, phad, pad, N. H. Ger. pfad, Gr. πάτος, Skr. patha, from path, to go.]

1. A way, course, or track, on which any thing moves or has moved; road; route; passage; a customary track; an established way.
2. Specifically, a narrow way beaten by the foot; a foot-way.

The dewy paths of meadows we will tread. Dryden. Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Gray. 3. Fig., course of action, conduct, or procedure. He marketh all my paths. Job xxxiii. 11. Hold up my goings in thy paths. Ps. xvii. 5. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant. Ps. xxv. 10. Not once or twice in our rough island-story The path of duty was the way to glory. Tennyson.