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762 words match “FOOT”

CLUBFOOTED a.
Having a clubfoot.
COLTSFOOT n.
o Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine. Butterbur coltsfoot (Bot.), a European plant (Petasites vulgaris).
COOTFOOT n.
The pharalope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's.
CROW'S-FOOT n. 3 definitions
A caltrop. [Written also crowfoot.]
CROWFOOT n. 4 definitions
A caltrop. [Written also crow's-foot.]
DOVE'S-FOOT n. 2 definitions
A small annual species of Geranium, native in England; -- so called from the shape of the leaf.
DRYFOOT n.
The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced. [Obs.] Shak.
DUCK'S-FOOT n.
The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum).
FANFOOT n. 2 definitions
species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes.
FIN-FOOTED a. 2 definitions
Having palmate feet.
FINFOOT n.
A South American bird (heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied to several related species of the genus Podica.
FLAT FOOT n.
A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot.
FLAT-FOOTED a. 2 definitions
Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep.
FLEET-FOOT a.
Swift of foot. Shak.
FOALFOOT n.
(Bot.) See Coltsfoot.
FOREFOOT n. 2 definitions
One of the anterior feet of a quardruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.
FOURFOOTED a.
Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
GOOSEFOOT n.
A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
HARE'S-FOOT FERN n.
A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock; -- whence the name.
HAREFOOT n. 2 definitions
A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or extending) forward; -- said of dogs.
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