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A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle. [They] bound him with fetters of brass. Judg. xvi. 21.

Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. See Illust. under Aves.

State of being fixed; fixedness. The firm fixture of thy foot. Shak.

, a house frequented by flash people, as thieves and whores; hence, a brothel. "A gang of footpads, reveling with their favorite beauties at a flash house." Macaulay.

of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed.

ding the strands and lying them over each other. -- Flemish horse (Naut.), an additional footrope at the end of a yard.

Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross. The sole of his foot is fleshy. Ray.

To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.

To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on. [Scot.]

A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. [Obs.] Mortimer.

A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.

To tread under foot; to trample. King Richard . . . caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled under foot. Knoless. Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle. Spenser.

follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Ex. xxi. 23, 24.

A place in a river, or other water, where it may passed by man or beast on foot, by wading. He swam the Esk river where ford there was none. Sir W. Scott.

ont. [Obs.] My foreward shall be drawn out all in length, Consisting equally of horse and foot. Shak.

Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.

or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.

A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.

school. (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and on an equal footing. (b) A school supported by general taxation, by endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for tuition; a public school. -- Free services (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldie…

Any small vessel on the water. [Obs.] Spenser. Frigate bird (Zoöl.), a web-footed rapacious bird, of the genus Fregata; -- called also man-of-war bird, and frigate pelican. Two species are known; that of the Southern United States and West Indies is F. aquila. They are remarkable for their long wings and powerful fligh…