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The pharalope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's.

ke out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple. He's likee a corn upon my great toe . . . he must be cored out. Marston.

A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toees, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome. Welkome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you. Shak.

tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.

Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century. Fairholt.

ead from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain. From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches. Shak. Twenty things which I set down: This done, I twenty more-had in my crown. Bunyan.

tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes.

A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken. Blue curls. (Bot.) See under Blue.

A finger or toe; a digit.

Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean.

The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds.

y cooked as the potato. It is a staple food plant of the tropics, being prepared like potatoes, and has been introduced into the Southern United States.

Having only two digits; two-toed.

he whole of dietetics lies in determining whether or not bread is more nutritive than potatoes. H. Spencer.

To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.

One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe. The ruminants have the "cloven foot," i. e., two hoofed digits on each foot. Owen.

Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.

A little finger or toe, or something resembling one.

characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix.

A division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.