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A servant, especially to a knight; an attendant; a valet; a footman. [Obs.] Spenser. Tusser.

A deformity in which the foot is turned inward. See Talipes.

An animal, in general. [Obs.] Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and vermin, and worms, and fowls. Acts x. 12. (Geneva Bible). This crocodile is a mischievous fourfooted beast, a dangerous vermin, used to both elements. Holland.

A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.

The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains; as, the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra; vestiges of former population. What vestiges of liberty or property h…

A commissure uniting the two main tendons in the foot of certain birds.

Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.

To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground. At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. Da…

That with which one walks; a foot. [Obs.] Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown. Chapman.

One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar. [Colloq.] Wright.

ondition of the liver, similar to wandering kidney. -- Wandering mouse (Zoöl.), the whitefooted, or deer, mouse. See Illust. of Mouse. -- Wandering spider (Zoöl.), any one of a tribe of spiders that wander about in search of their prey.

Cautiously; warily. [Obs.] They bound him hand and foot with iron chains, And with continual watch did warely keep. Spenser.

herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot.

A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage. [Western U. S.]

The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.

To bore or pierce, as with a wimble. "A foot soldier . . . wimbled also a hole through said coffin." Wood.

One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.

To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only. Wink at the footman to leave him without a plate. Swift.

A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus. The wisp that flickers where no foot can tread. Tennyson.

the force. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg. Energy is the capacity of doing work . . . Work is the transference of energy from one system to another. Clerk Maxwell.