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-feet (pl. ) of Crow's-foot |
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). |
Feet (n. pl.) See Foot. |
Feet (n.) Fact |
Flat (superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions |
Flat (superl.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground |
Flat (superl.) Wanting relief |
Flat (superl.) Tasteless |
Flat (superl.) Unanimated |
Flat (superl.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings |
Flat (superl.) Clear |
Flat (superl.) Below the true pitch |
Flat (superl.) Not sharp or shrill |
Flat (superl.) Sonant |
Flat (adv.) In a flat manner |
Flat (adv.) Without allowance for accrued interest. |
Flat (n.) A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences |
Flat (n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide |
Flat (n.) Something broad and flat in form |
Flat (n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught. |
Flat (n.) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned. |
Flat (n.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides |
Flat (n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions. |
Flat (n.) The flat part, or side, of anything |
Flat (n.) A floor, loft, or story in a building |
Flat (n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein |
Flat (n.) A dull fellow |
Flat (n.) A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower. |
Flat (n.) A homaloid space or extension. |
Flat (v. t.) To make flat |
Flat (v. t.) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless |
Flat (v. t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note |
Flat (v. i.) To become flat, or flattened |
Flat (v. i.) To fall form the pitch. |
Flat-bottomed (a.) Having an even lower surface or bottom |
Flat-cap (n.) A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere |
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 |
Flat-footed (a.) Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep. |
Flat-footed (a.) Firm-footed |
Flat-headed (a.) Having a head with a flattened top |
Fleet-foot (a.) Swift of foot. |
Feet (pl. ) of Foot |
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 |
apartment flat | a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house |
B-flat clarinet licorice stick | the ordinary clarinet with a middle range |
cloth cap flat cap | a flat woolen cap with a stiff peak |
cold-water flat | an apartment without modern conveniences |
coulisse wing flat | a flat situated in the wings |
flat | scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas, part of a stage setting |
flat flat tire | a deflated pneumatic tire |
flat | a shallow box in which seedlings are started |
flat arch straight arch | an arch with mutually supporting voussoirs that has a straight horizontal extrados and intrados |
flat bench | a bench on which a weightlifter lies to do exercises |
flatcar flatbed flat | freight car without permanent sides or roof |
flat coat ground primer priming primer coat priming coat undercoat | the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface |
flat file | a file with two flat surfaces |
flat panel display FPD | a type of video display that is thin and flat, commonly used in laptop computers |
flat tip screwdriver | a screwdriver with a flat wedge-shaped tip that fits into a slot in the head of a screw |
flatwork flat wash | ironing that can be done mechanically |
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 |
pedal treadle foot pedal foot lever | a lever that is operated with the foot |
railroad flat | an apartment whose rooms are all in a line with doors between them |
reef knot flat knot | a square knot used in a reef line |
sheet flat solid | a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width |
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 |
flat | a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named |
double flat | a musical notation of two flats in front of a note indicating that it is to be lowered by two semitones |
metrical foot foot metrical unit | (prosody) a group of or syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm |
footrace foot race run | a race run on foot, she broke the record for the half-mile run |
cold feet | timidity that prevents the continuation of a course of action, I was going to tell him but I got cold feet |
calf's-foot jelly | a savory jelly made with gelatin obtained by boiling calves' feet |
flat bone | part of the sirloin next to the wedge bone |
calves' feet | feet of calves used as food, usually jellied |
pigs' feet pigs' knuckles | feet or knuckles of hogs used as food, pickled or stewed or jellied |