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from a boot on not extending so far up the leg. Your hose should be ungartered, . . . yourshoe untied. Shak. Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon. Shak.

A large African wading bird (Balæniceps rex) allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen bill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See Illust. (l.) of Beak.

One who polishes shoes.

(Print.) In some cylinder presses, a device with long fingers for freeing the sheet from the cylinder.

piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe.

Destitute of shoes. Addison.

One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots.

The business of a shoemaker.

One who fits shoes to the feet; one who furnishes or puts on shoes; as, a shoer of horses.

A galoche.

A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof.

The act or employment of shoeing horses.

One who shoes horses.

A kickshaws. Milton.

A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche.

A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron nailed to the hoof.

A slipper. Halliwell.

A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow.

Traveling on snowshoes.

One who travels on snowshoes; an expert in using snowshoes. W. G. Beers.