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Having three feet.

Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.

Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.

The active young larva of any oil beetle. It has feet armed with three claws, and is parasitic on bees. See Illust. of Oil beetle, under Oil.

alk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily. And trudged to Rome upon my naked feet. Dryden.

but now confined to certain islets near the coast. It reaches a length of two and a half feet, is dark olive- green with small white or yellowish specks on the sides, and has yellow spines along the back, except on the neck.

An eccentric ragtime dance, danced with the feet well apart and with a characteristic rise on the ball of the foot, followed by a drop upon the heel. The original form, owning to the positions assumed by the dancers, is offensively suggestive. Similar dances are the bunny hug and grizzly bear, so called in allusion to…

A whaleback steamer with a hatch coaming, usually about seven feet high, extending almost continuously fore and aft.

Measuring two feet; two feet long, thick, or wide; as, a two- foot rule.

The two-toed sloth (Cholopus didactylus), native of South America. It is about two feet long. Its color is a uniform grayish brown, sometimes with a reddish tint.

Under the feet; underneath; below. See Under foot, under Foot, n.

To groan beneath. [Obs.] Earth undergroaned their high-raised feet. Chapman.

h should be square, in such a manner that it appears to contain a greater number of cubic feet than it really does contain. Haldeman.

Not equal; not of equal length. Hebrew verse consists of uneven feet. Peacham.

e; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. His honor rooted in dishonor stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. Tennyson.

Having a nail, claw, or hoof attached; -- said of certain bones of the feet.

sperm candle burning 120 grains per hour. Standard gas, burning at the rate of five cubic feet per hour, must have an illuminating power equal to that of fourteen such candles. -- Unit of measure (as of length, surface, volume, dry measure, liquid measure, money, weight, time, and the like), in general, a determinate…

Not having the claws and balls of the forefeet cut off; -- said of dogs.

A fir pole of from four to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split. [Spelt also ufer.] [Eng.] Gwilt.

An infective sore mostly on the hands and feet, often contracted in walking on the veldt and apparently due to a specific microörganism.