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yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.

he forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet. Macaulay.

ts fragility, the tail easily breaking into small pieces. It grows to the length of three feet. The name is applied also to similar species found in the Old World.

o the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera.

To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to walk step by step, or leisurely.

ate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab. The low stumps shall gore His daintly feet. Coleridge.

adient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.

Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birsds.

seus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.

ersion). Willam the Conqueror . . . chanced as his arrival to be graveled; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand that he fell to the ground. Camden.

Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.

Grim; hideous; stern. [R.] In glided Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. D. Mallet.

A South American animal of the family Mustelidae (Galictis vittata). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton. (b) A South American monkey (Lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous.

To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread. Goldsmith.

Moving in a hobbling manner, owing to ten der feet; -- said of a horse. Youatt.

Ground pig (Zoöl.), a large, burrowing, African rodent (Aulacodus Swinderianus) about two feet long, allied to the porcupines but with harsh, bristly hair, and no spines; -- called also ground rat. -- Ground pigeon (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of pigeons which live largely upon the ground, as the tooth-billed pige…

nd usually mottled plumage. The group includes the ptarmigans (Lagopus), having feathered feet.

A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.

large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.

o incur, or bring on. I hazarded the loss of whom I loved. Shak. They hazard to cut their feet. Landor.