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

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

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.

A foot the toes of which are connected by a membrane.

Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web- footed fowl.

A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.

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.

Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet. Drayton.

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.

Club moss. See Lycopodium.

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.

To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert. You wrenched your foot against a stone. Swift.

Yoke-footed; having the toes disposed in pairs; -- applied to birds which have two toes before and two behind, as the parrot, cuckoo, woodpecker, etc.