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A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing.

An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits. Each foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse.

The foot joint; in birds, the joint between the metatarsus and the toes.

uor, having a hot, smoky taste, and rich in amyl alcohol (fusel oil); it is made from potatoes or potato starch. -- Potato worm (Zoöl.), the large green larva of a sphinx, or hawk moth (Macrosila quinquemaculata); -- called also tomato worm. See Illust. under Tomato. -- Seaside potato (Bot.), Ipomoea Pes-Capræ, a kin…

An extra first toe, or rudiment of a toe, on the preaxial side of the hallux.

A genus of fossil horses from the Lower Pliocene. They had three toes on each foot, the lateral ones being small.

article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a purée of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.

apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone.

le of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively. This test nippeth, . . . this toucheth the quick. Lati…

Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive. [Obs.] Burton. Where the master is too resty or too rich to say his own prayers. Milton.

l.), any species of duck belonging to Anas, Spatula, and allied genera, in which the hind toe is destitute of a membranous lobe, as in the mallard and pintail; -- opposed to sea duck. -- River god, a deity supposed to preside over a river as its tutelary divinity. -- River herring (Zoöl.), an alewife. -- River hog.…

several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard.

A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.

A small North American owl (Nyctale Acadica), destitute of ear tufts and having feathered toes; -- called also Acadian owl.

A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).

Having the two flexor tendons of the toes entirely separate, and the flexor hallicus going to the first toe only.

e tongue is not extensile. The body and tail are covered with overlapping scales, and the toes are margined. See Illust. under Skink.

One of the transverse scales on the tarsi and toes of birds; a scutella.

ers, old squaw, and ruddy duck are examples. They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe.

here . . . is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law. Goldsmith. Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the laminæ and the wall of the hoof.