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One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.

The finfoot.

tary punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.

A name of several annual weeds. See Goosefoot, and Lamb's- quarters.

A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.

Having the toes bordered by membranes; fin-footed, as certain birds.

A light, repeated sound; a pattering, as of the rain. "The pitapat of a pretty foot." Dryden.

To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork. He has been pitchforked into the footguards. G. A. Sala.

ut of place, inappropriate; ill-timed; as, his remarks were out of place. -- Place kick (Football), the act of kicking the ball after it has been placed on the ground. -- Place name, the name of a place or locality. London Academy. -- To give place, to make room; to yield; to give way; to give advantage. "Neither gi…

The sole of the foot. [R.] "Knotty legs and plants of clay." B. Jonson.

Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.

Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.

An animal having broad feet, or a broad foot.

An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits. Each foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse.

A combining form or suffix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal having leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod.

A New Latin plural combining form or suffix from Gr. foot; as, hexapoda, myriapoda. See -pod.

Gout in the joints of the foot; -- applied also to gout in other parts of body.

pain in the foot, due to gout, rheumatism, etc.

The foot joint; in birds, the joint between the metatarsus and the toes.