Bear's-foot |
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. |
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Bird's-foot |
A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point. |
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Polt-foot |
Alt. of Polt-footed |
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Sheep's-foot |
A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer. |
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Single-foot |
An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also single-footed pace. See Single, v. i. |
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Tiger-foot |
Same as Tiger's-foot. |
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Tiger's-foot |
A name given to some species of morning-glory (Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion. |
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Two-foot |
Measuring two feet; two feet long, thick, or wide; as, a two-foot rule. |
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White-foot |
A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin. |
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Wolf's-foot |
Club moss. See Lycopodium. |
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Cat's-foot |
A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy. |
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Crow's-foot |
The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes. |
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Crow's-foot |
A caltrop. |
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Crow's-foot |
Same as Bird's-mouth. |
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Dove's-foot |
A small annual species of Geranium, native in England; -- so called from the shape of the leaf. |
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Dove's-foot |
The columbine. |
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Duck's-foot |
The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). |
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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; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot. |
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Fleet |
To sail; to float. |
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Fleet |
To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance. |
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