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Destitute of socks or shoes. B. & Fl.

The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom. The "caliga" was a military shoe, with a very thick sole, tied above the instep. Arbuthnot.

A flexible steel shoe (or one of the plates forming such a shoe), worn with mediæval armor.

A shoemaker; a cobbler. [Obs.] Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.

A kind of small nail used by shoemakers.

, Fox sparrow, etc. See under Field, Fox, etc. -- Sparrow bill, a small nail; a castiron shoe nail; a sparable. -- Sparrow hawk. (Zoöl.) (a) A small European hawk (Accipiter nisus) or any of the allied species. (b) A small American falcon (Falco sparverius). (c) The Australian collared sparrow hawk (Accipiter torquat…

The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel. Bath sponge, any one of several varieties of coarse commercial sponges, especially Spongia equina. -- Cup sponge, a toilet sponge growing in a cup-shaped form. -- Glass sponge. See Glass-sponge, in the Vocabulary. -- Glove sponge, a variety of commercia…

Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.

nimal or instrument, such as is made by carriage wheels when dry, by the soles of leather shoes, or by a pipe or reed.

A kind of high rustic shoe. [Obs.] Drayton. A startuppe, or clownish shoe. Spenser.

A stout, coarse boot or shoe; a brogan.

, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string. Shak. Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string. Prior.

A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron. Stub end (Mach.), the enlarged end of a connecting rod, to which the strap is fastened. -- Stub iron, iron made from stub nails, or old horseshoe nails, -- used in making gun barrels. -- Stub mortise (Carp.), a mortise passing only partly through the timber in whic…

Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy. [China] McElrath.

The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

Small wings or winged shoes represented as fastened to the ankles, -- chiefly used as an attribute of Mercury.

To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.

Low shoes fastened with lacings. Bale tie, a fastening for the ends of a hoop for a bale.

, ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.

ed by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.