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Foot
FOOT, n. plu. feet. [L. pes, pedis. Probably this word is allied to the Gr. to walk, to tread. Eng. verb, to tread.]
1. In animal bodies, the lower extremity of the leg; the part of the leg which treads the earth in standing or walking, and by which the animal is sustained and enabled to step.
2. That which bears some resemblance to an animal's foot in shape or office; the lower end of any thing that supports a body; as the foot of a table.
3. The lower part; the base; as the foot of a column or of a mountain.
4. The lower part; the bottom; as the foot of an account; the foot of a sail.
5. Foundation; condition; state. We are not on the same foot with our fellow citizens. In this sense, it is more common, in America, to use footing; and in this sense the plural is not used.
6. Plan of establishment; fundamental principles. Our constitution may hereafter be placed on a better foot.
[In this sense the plural is not used.]
7. In military language, soldiers who march and fight on foot; infantry, as distinguished from cavalry.
[In this sense the plural is not used.]
8. A measure consisting of twelve inches; supposed to be taken from the length of a man's foot. Geometricians divide the foot into 10 digits, and the digit into 10 lines.
9. In poetry, a certain number of syllables, constituting part of a verse; as the iambus, the dactyl, and the spondee.
10. Step; pace.
11. Level; par. obs.
12. The part of a stocking or boot which receives the foot.
By foot, or rather, on foot, by walking, as to go or pass on foot; or by fording, as to pass a stream on foot. See the next definition.
To set on foot, to originate; to begin; to put in motion; as, to set on foot a subscription. Hence, to be on foot, is to be in motion, action or process of execution.
FOOT, v.i.
1. To dance; to tread to measure or music; to skip.
2. To walk; opposed to ride or fly. In this sense, the word is commonly followed by it.
If you are for a merry jaunt, I'll try, for once, who can foot it farthest.
FOOT, v.t.
1. To kick; to strike with the foot; to spurn.
2. To settle; to begin to fix. [Little used.]
3. To tread; as, to foot the green.
4. To add the numbers in a column, and set the sum at the foot; as, to foot an account.
5. To seize and hold with the foot. [Not used.]
6. To add or make a foot; as, to foot a stocking or boot.
foot appears in definitions for these words:
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Adfiliation Adhil Adjutant Afoot Ahuitzote Albatros Alcove Alexanders Aliped Amilot Ammodyte Amphibrach Amphimacer Anapest Angel Anise Ankle Anomaliped Antibacchius Antipode Aonian Apode Appointee Arms Aspen Ass Asteropode Astragal Athwart Bacchius Baker-foot Ball Bamboo Banana Banquette Barefoot Basis Bazat Bear-cloth Beast Beat Bend Benum Bib Bind Biped Birdsfoot Bison Bisulcous Blenny Bleyme Bolt-rope Bonnet Boot Bound Breviped Brigadier Brown Bull-fight Buskin Camphor-tree Camping Cap Carabine Cesure Chimera Cholesterine Choreus Choriambus Claw Cloven-footed Come Commensurability Conculcate Conculcation Conglomerate Corban Crepance Crepane Cretic Crush Cubic Cubical Cuboidal Cut Dactyl Dash Decempedal Depth Dip Dissyllabic Docket Dragon Dragoon Driver Dryfoot Eelpout Epitrite Expeditate Fairy Feet Fern Fetter Field-colors Fiftieth Fissiped Fixture Fleetfoot Fleshy Foot Football Footbreadth Footbridge Footed Footfight Footing Footman Footpad Footpath Footpost Footsoldier Footstalk Footstep Footstool For Ford Fordable Forded Fording Futtock Galangal Gallowglass Galoche Giddy Goer Goloe-shoe Gravel Graywacke Grenadier Guard Halberd Hand Heel Heroic Hexaped High Hight Hyena Iambic Iambus Ichneumon Ichnography Imbrown Inaudible Inch Inchoation Infantry Inflorescence Instep Interference Interfering Interruption Investigate Janizary Javelin Jump Kern Kick Kicked Kicking Lackey Lansquenet Last Lava Leg Lift Light Lightlegged Lion-mettled Loose Lunet Manacle Mark Matter Measure Mellit Metatarsus Milleped Molossus Moose Morse Multiped Mutilate Myrtle Neat Nimble-footed Noiseless O Ounce Outmarch Over Overlether Overreach Pace Pad Padder Paddle Palmiped Pantofle Papaw Partial Pass Passager Passed Pastern Pastern-joint Path Pathfly Pathway Pave Paw Pawed Pean Pedal Pedaneous Pedate Pedatifid Pedestal Pedestrial Pedestrian Pedestrious Pedicle Pedigree Pediluvy Pediment Pedler Pedometer Peduncle Peon Pepper Petiolate Picket Pin Pinnatiped Piste Pitapat Plant Platoon Plumiped Poachard Podagric Polt-foot Polypus Print Proceleusmatic Pyrrhic Quadruped Quaggy Quarter Quitter-bone Refrain Regil Regiment Repedation Restant Retract Rock Root Royal Ruminant Run Salient Salver Sandal Sanded Saussurite Scald Scarp Scorpion Scrape Scratches Semiped Semipedal Sensitive-plant Sesqipedal Sesquipedalian Sessile Shank Shape Shoe Shoebuckle Shoeinghorn Shoestring Shoetye Sign Sill Silver Skip Slip Slipperiness Slippery Sock Socle Sofa Sold Sole Solid Soliped Spanker Spear-foot Speedy Splayfoot Splayfooted Spondee Spurn Stamp Step Stepping Stilt Stipula Stir Stirrup Stroll Strolling Stumble Subsessile Suppedaneous Supplant Sure Surefooted Swagger Swarm Swift Talus Tarsus Throne Thrust Ticklish Toe Toise Trace Tracing Track Tracked Trackless Tract Trailing Trammeled Trample Trampled Trampling Translation Trave Tread Treading Treddle Tribrach Trip Tripod Trochee Trode Trot Trotter Trudge Turnstile Universal Untraced Untracked Use Varlet Vatican Vestige Wair Web-footed White-foot Wing Wing-footed Wink Wrench Zerda
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