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To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame. He had crippled the joints of the noble child. Sir W. Scott.

An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot. "The tufted crowtoe." Milton.

, or cut. Lev. xxii. 24. The ass . . . thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. Num. xxii. 25.

tion, an equation in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a cube. -- Cubic foot, a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which measures a foot in each of its dimensions. -- Cubic number, a number produced by multiplying a number into itself, and that product again by the same number. See Cube. -- Cubica…

Cube-shaped, or nearly so; as, the cuboid bone of the foot. -- n. (Anat.)

quirting cucumber, a plant (Ecbalium Elaterium) whose small oval fruit separates from the footstalk when ripe and expels its seeds and juice with considerable force through the opening thus made. See Elaterium. -- Star cucumber,a climbing weed (Sicyos angulatus) with prickly fruit.

eir first stomach, to be cheved a second time. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Levit. xi. 3

ish; to cut a caper. I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my right foot. McClintock.

A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tëgmînê, E. mer"ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also dactyle.]

the massiveness of the dish. Hakewill. The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine shape of his hands, Sir H. Wotton.

Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.

The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.

which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing.

place. [R.] And from the extremest upward of thy head, To the descent and dust below thy foot. Shak.

, Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance. [Obs.] Near, and on speedy foot; the main descry Stands on the hourly thought. Shak.

e terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe. The ruminants have the "cloven foot," i. e., two hoofed digits on each foot. Owen.

at, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot.

A double iambus; a foot consisting of two iambuses (

Unshod; barefooted; -- in distinction from calced. "The foundation of houses of discalced friars." Cardinal Manning's St. Teresa.

A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables.