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 |
Coco palm () See Cocoa. |
Cocoa palm () A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters |
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. |
Doom palm () A species of palm tree (Hyphaene Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia. |
Doum palm () See Doom palm. |
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). |
Fan palm () Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves |
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 |
Grugru palm () A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. See Macaw tree, under Macaw. |
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). |
Ita palm () A magnificent species of palm (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber. |
Jagua palm () A great Brazilian palm (Maximiliana regia), having immense spathes which are used for baskets and tubs. |
Jupati palm () A great Brazilian palm tree (Raphia taedigera), used by the natives for many purposes. |
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. |
Palm (n.) The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist. |
Palm (n.) A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers |
Palm (n.) A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc. |
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 |
banded palm civet Hemigalus hardwickii | an East Indian civet |
palm cat palm civet | spotted or striped arboreal civet of southeast Asia and East Indies |
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 |
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 |
ponytail | a hair style that draws the hair back so that it hangs down in back of the head like a pony's tail |
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 |
palm thenar | the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers |
palmistry palm reading chiromancy chirology | telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand |
decoration laurel wreath medal medallion palm ribbon | an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event |
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 |
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 |
palm oil | oil from nuts of oil palms especially the African oil palm |
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 |
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 |
Palm Beach | a resort town in southeast Florida on an island on the Atlantic coast |
West Palm Beach | a town in southeast Florida on the mainland opposite Palm Beach, founded as a commercial center for Palm Beach |
chiropodist foot doctor podiatrist | a specialist in care for the feet |
foot | a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger |
infantryman marcher foot soldier footslogger | fights on foot with small arms |
subordinate subsidiary underling foot soldier | an assistant subject to the authority or control of another |
sago palm Cycas revoluta | dwarf palmlike cycad of Japan that yields sago |
false sago fern palm Cycas circinalis | southeastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage |
stinking hellebore bear's foot setterwort Helleborus foetidus | digitate-leaved hellebore with an offensive odor and irritant qualities when taken internally |
devil's tongue snake palm umbrella arum Amorphophallus rivieri | foul-smelling somewhat fleshy tropical plant of southeastern Asia cultivated for its edible corms or in the greenhouse for its large leaves and showy dark red spathe surrounding a large spadix |
cat's foot cat's feet pussytoes Antennaria dioica | low-growing perennial herb having leaves with whitish down and clusters of small white flowers |
elephant's-foot | any plant of the genus Elephantopus having heads of blue or purple flowers, America |
lion's foot gall of the earth Nabalus serpentarius Prenanthes serpentaria | common perennial herb widely distributed in the southern and eastern United States having drooping clusters of pinkish flowers and thick basal leaves suggesting a lion's foot in shape, sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes |
elephant's-foot tortoise plant Hottentot bread vine Hottentot's bread vine Dioscorea elephantipes | South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark |
red beech brown oak booyong crow's foot stave wood silky elm Heritiera trifoliolata Terrietia trifoliolata | large tree of Australasia |