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Having (such or so many) toes; -- chiefly used in composition; as, narrow-toed, four-toed.

Having toes connected by a membrane; palmiped; palmated; also, lobate.

Bearing or having a motto; as, a mottoed coat or device.

See Octahedral. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Having the toes turned in.

Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.

Having the toes united by a web for a considerable part of their length.

Having two toes in front and two behind, as the trogons and woodpeckers.

The three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America. See Sloth.

Even-toed.

l bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.

An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone.

he scratch. (a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in beginning a contest; hence: (b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely. [Colloq.] -- To come to time. (a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed f…

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.

Having only two digits; two-toed.

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.

An extinct genus of Tertiary mammals allied to the horse, but three-toed, having on each foot a small lateral hoof on each side of the main central one. It is believed to be one of the ancestral genera of the Horse family.

of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of supporting the entire body. Its teeth resemble those of the iguana, whence its name. Several species are known, mostly from the Wealden of England and Europe. See Illustration in Appendix.

An extinct genus of huge vertebrates, probably dinosaurs, known only from four-toed tracks in Triassic sandstones.