Bear's-foot
(n.) A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic. |
Bird's-foot
(n.) A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point. |
Cat's-foot
(n.) A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip |
Crow's-foot
(n.) The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes. |
Crow's-foot
(n.) A caltrop. |
Crow's-foot
(n.) Same as Bird's-mouth. |
Dove's-foot
(n.) A small annual species of Geranium, native in England |
Dove's-foot
(n.) The columbine. |
Duck's-foot
(n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). |
Dynamo-electric
(a.) Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power |
Electric
(a.) Alt. of Electrical |
Electric
(n.) A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity. |
Flat foot
() A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground |
Fleet-foot
(a.) Swift of foot. |
Foot
(n.) The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal |
Foot
(n.) The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum. |
Foot
(n.) That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal |
Foot
(n.) The lowest part or base |
Foot
(n.) Fundamental principle |
Foot
(n.) Recognized condition |
Foot
(n.) A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches |
Foot
(n.) Soldiers who march and fight on foot |
Foot
(n.) A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent. |
Foot
(n.) The lower edge of a sail. |
Foot
(v. i.) To tread to measure or music |
Foot
(v. i.) To walk |
Foot
(v. t.) To kick with the foot |
Foot
(v. t.) To set on foot |
Foot
(v. t.) To tread |
Foot
(v. t.) To sum up, as the numbers in a column |
Foot
(v. t.) The size or strike with the talon. |
Foot
(v. t.) To renew the foot of, as of stocking. |
Foot Guards
(pl.) Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards. |
Foot pound
() A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity the height of one foot. |
Foot poundal
() A unit of energy or work, equal to the work done in moving a body through one foot against the force of one poundal. |
Foot-sore
(a.) Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking |
Hare's-foot fern
() A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock |
Hen's-foot
(n.) An umbelliferous plant (Caucalis daucoides). |
Hydro-electric
(a.) Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is used. |
Light-foot
(a.) Alt. of Light-footed |
Lion's foot
() A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which several species are found in the United States. |
Lion's foot
() The edelweiss. |
Magneto-electric
(a.) Alt. of Magneto-electrical |
Personal
(a.) Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things. |
Personal
(a.) Of or pertaining to a particular person |
Personal
(a.) Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance |
Personal
(a.) Done in person |
Personal
(a.) Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner |
Personal
(a.) Denoting person |
Personal
(n.) A movable |
| foot | travel by walking, he followed on foot, the swiftest of foot |
rack
single-foot | a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately |
electrotherapy
galvanism
electric healing
electrical healing | the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis) |
| personal care | care for someone who is disabled or is otherwise unable to care for themselves, can including bathing and cooking and managing bodily functions |
| personal foul | a foul that involves unnecessarily rough contact (as in basketball or football) |
electric shock
electrical shock
shock | a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body, subjects received a small electric shock when they made the wrong response, electricians get accustomed to occasional shocks |
| electric shock | the use of electricity to administer punishment or torture, they used cattle prods to administer electric shocks |
judgment in personam
judgement in personam
personal judgment
personal judgement | a judgment rendered against an individual (or corporation) for the payment of money damages |
electric eel
Electrophorus electric | eel-shaped freshwater fish of South America having electric organs in its body |
electric ray
crampfish
numbfish
torpedo | any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges |
scoter
scooter | large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemisphere |
animal foot
foot | the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings |
| fossorial foot | foot adapted for digging as in moles |
cloven foot
cloven hoof | a hoof divided into two parts at its distal extremity (as of ruminants or swine) |
| bird's foot | the foot of a bird |
| zygodactyl foot | a bird's foot having the first and fourth toes of each foot directed backward and the second and third forward |
| heterodactyl foot | a bird's foot having the first and second toes of each foot directed backward and the third and fourth forward |
| webbed foot | a bird's foot with folds of skin between the toes |
| lobate foot | a bird's foot having separate toes each with membranous flaps along the sides |
| horse's foot | the hoof of a horse |
leaf-footed bug
leaf-foot bug | large sap-sucking bug with leaflike expansions on the legs |
foot
invertebrate foot | any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates |
| tube foot | tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration |
electric catfish
Malopterurus electricus | freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ |
battery
electric battery | a device that produces electricity, may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series |
cell
electric cell | a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction |
circuit
electrical circuit
electric circuit | an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow |
conveyer belt
conveyor belt
conveyer
conveyor
transporter | a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory) |
| cord electric cord | a light insulated conductor for household use |
diesel-electric locomotive
diesel-electric | a locomotive driven by the electric current generated by a diesel engine |
disposal
electric pig
garbage disposal | a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage |
| electric drill | a rotating power drill powered by an electric motor |
drum sander
electric sander
sander
smoother | a power tool used for sanding wood, an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor |
electric
electric automobile
electric car | a car that is powered by electricity |
| electric bell | a bell activated by the magnetic effect of an electric current |
| electric blanket | a blanket containing and electric heating element that can be controlled to the desired temperature by a rheostat |
electric chair
chair death chair
hot seat | an instrument of execution by electrocution, resembles an ordinary seat for one person, the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair |
| electric clock | a clock using a small electric motor |
electric-discharge lamp
gas-discharge lamp | an electric lamp in which the light comes from an electric discharge between two electrodes in a glass tube |
electric fan
blower | a fan run by an electric motor |
| electric frying pan | a frying pan heated by electricity |
| electric furnace | any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current |
| electric guitar | a guitar whose sound is amplified by electrical means |
| electric hammer | a hammer driven by electric motor |
electric heater
electric fire | a small electric space heater |
| electric lamp | a lamp powered by electricity |
| electric locomotive | a locomotive that is powered by an electric motor |
| electric main | a main that distributes electricity |
electric meter
power meter | a meter for measuring the amount of electric power used |
| electric mixer | a food mixer powered by an electric motor |