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Of or pertaining to the feet; employing the foot or feet.

Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.

The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.

To practice walking; to travel on foot.

Going on foot; not winged. [Obs.] "Pedestrious animals." Sir T. Browne.

Combining forms from L. pes, pedis, foot, as pedipalp, pedireme, pedometer.

Pertaining to the foot, or to any organ called a foot; pedal. Dana.

Shaped like a foot.

Moved or worked by the action of the foot or feet on a pedal or treadle.

Any large webfooted bird of the genus of Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored.

The under surface of the foot.

Having five digits to the hand or foot.

hletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear.

A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger. [India]

A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering.

with black below the throat. Called also peregrine hawk, duck hawk, game hawk, and great-footed hawk.

To perfect. [Obs.] Foote.

The distal segment of the hind limb of vertebrates, including the tarsus and foot.

I'll pour this pestilence into his ear. Shak. Pestilence weed (Bot.), the butterbur coltsfoot (Petasites vulgaris), so called because formerly considered a remedy for the plague. Dr. Prior.

A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.