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Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle.

A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.

A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet; as:

Having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot. "Footed like a goat." Grew.

A disease affecting the feet of sheep.

A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.

Having no feet.

A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.

A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.

Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.

One of the anterior feet of a quardruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.

To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.

Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.

ica, and the East Indies, esp. P. medius of India. Some of the species are more than four feet across the outspread wings. See Fruit bat. -- Fox bolt, a bolt having a split end to receive a fox wedge. -- Fox brush (Zoöl.), the tail of a fox. -- Fox evil, a disease in which the hair falls off; alopecy. -- Fox grape…

ls. Frilled lizard (Zoöl.), a large Australian lizard (Chlamydosaurus Kingii) about three feet long, which has a large, erectile frill on each side of the neck.

Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook. They warmed their frozen feet. Dryden.

. The gallens . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castels. Motley.

mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds. Hand gallop, a slow or gentle gallop.

es of very large squids, belonging to Architeuthis and allied genera. Some are over forty feet long.

a family by itself; the camelopard. It is the tallest of animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs.