navigate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To plan, record, and control the course and position of (a ship or aircraft).
2. v. To follow a planned course on, across, or through: navigate a stream.
3. v. To control the course of a ship or aircraft.
4. v. To voyage over water in a boat or ship; sail.
5. v. To make one's way: navigated with difficulty through the crowd.
6. v. Informal To walk: He was too unsteady on his legs to navigate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To move from place to place in a ship; sail.
2. To direct or manage a ship.
3. To pass over in ships; sail on.
4. To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; direct the course of, as a vessel, from one place to another: as, to navigate a ship.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft etc on a journey; to follow a planned course.
2. v. intransitive To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
3. v. intransitive, computing To move from page to page on the internet or within a program by clicking on hyperlinks.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To journey by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail.
2. v. To direct or operate a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft.
3. v. To pass through, over, or around; -- used especially of a course having obstacles.
4. v. To pass over in ships; to sail over or on.
5. v. To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen.
6. v. To pass through, over, or around; -- used especially of a course having obstacles.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
2. v. direct carefully and safely
3. v. act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance