Air brake () A railway brake operated by condensed air. |
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. |
Brake () imp. of Break. |
Brake (n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern. |
Brake (n.) A thicket |
Brake (v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber. |
Brake (v. t.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine. |
Brake (v. t.) A baker's kneading though. |
Brake (v. t.) A sharp bit or snaffle. |
Brake (v. t.) A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him |
Brake (v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn. |
Brake (v. t.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. |
Brake (v. t.) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing |
Brake (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine. |
Brake (v. t.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome |
Brake (v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses. |
Brake (v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture. |
Brake () of Break |
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). |
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 |
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 |
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 |
airbrake dive brake | a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft |
brake | a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle |
brake | anything that slows or hinders a process, she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage, new legislation will put the brakes on spending |
brake band | a band that can be tightened around a shaft to stop its rotation |
brake cylinder hydraulic brake cylinder master cylinder | a cylinder that contains brake fluid that is compressed by a piston |
brake disk | a disk or plate that is fixed to the wheel, pressure is applied to it by the brake pads |
brake drum drum | a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes |
brake lining | the lining on the brake shoes that comes in contact with the brake drum |
brake pad | one of the pads that apply friction to both sides of the brake disk |
brake pedal | foot pedal that moves a piston in the master brake cylinder |
brake shoe shoe skid | a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation |
brake system brakes | a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle |
coaster brake | a brake on a bicycle that engages with reverse pressure on the pedals |
disk brake disc brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads |
drum brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to the inside of a spinning drum by the brake shoe |
foot | a support resembling a pedal extremity, one foot of the chair was on the carpet |
foot brake | hydraulic brake operated by pressing on a foot pedal |
foot rule | a ruler one foot long |
foundation base fundament foot groundwork substructure understructure | lowest support of a structure, it was built on a base of solid rock, he stood at the foot of the tower |
hand brake emergency emergency brake parking brake | a brake operated by hand, usually operates by mechanical linkage |
hydraulic brake hydraulic brakes | brake system in which a brake pedal moves a piston in the master cylinder, brake fluid then applies great force to the brake pads or shoes |
pedal treadle foot pedal foot lever | a lever that is operated with the foot |
power brake | a brake on an automobile that magnifies a small force applied to the brake pedal into a proportionately larger force applied to slow or stop the vehicle |
shooting brake | another name for a station wagon |
vertebrate foot pedal extremity | the extremity of the limb in vertebrates |
foot human foot pes | the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint, his bare feet projected from his trousers, armored from head to foot |
cloven hoof cloven foot | the mark of Satan |
metrical foot foot metrical unit | (prosody) a group of or syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm |
stoplight brake light | a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop |
brake failure | brakes fail to stop a vehicle |
footrace foot race run | a race run on foot, she broke the record for the half-mile run |
calf's-foot jelly | a savory jelly made with gelatin obtained by boiling calves' feet |
infantry foot | an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot, there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot |
pedestrian traffic foot traffic | people coming and going on foot |
brake | an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant |
foot | the lower part of anything, curled up on the foot of the bed, the foot of the page, the foot of the list, the foot of the mountain |