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footed, ppl. a.|ˈfʊtɪd|
[f. foot n. and v. + -ed.]
Furnished with or having feet (rarely a foot).
1. a. Of a man or animal: Furnished with feet; having feet like (a dog, goose, etc.).
a1529Skelton Elynour Rumming 49 Foted lyke a plane. 1608R. Armin Nest Ninn. A iv a, Footed broad and long, In Motly cotes, goes Jacke Oates. 1661J. Childrey Brit. Baconica 18 The Seal-fish is..footed like a Moldwarp. 1727Philip Quarll (1816) 18 An animal..faced and footed like a goat. 1854H. H. Wilson Rig-veda II. 91 The footless dawn is the precursor of footed beings. 1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. ix. iii. §5. 220 Thighed and shouldered like the billows;—footed like their stealing foam.
b. in parasynthetic derivatives, q.v. under their first element (as brazen-, cat-, claw-footed, etc.), or as main words (e.g. bare-, fourfooted).
c. fig. footed as or with the wind: having feet as swift as the wind.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xiii. 216 Each followes as his horse were footed with the wind. 1865Swinburne Atalanta 46 Fair as the snow and footed as the wind.
2. Of a shoe, stocking, piece of furniture, etc.: Having, or provided with, a foot or feet; also, mended with a (new) foot.
1453Test. Ebor. (Surtees) II. 191, ij salers broken, of siluer gilted and footed. 1463Bury Wills (Camden) 23 A chayer, iij. footyd stoolys. c1530in Gutch Coll. Cur. II. 301 Item oone pleyne Pece footid and with a Cover. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage i. xvi. 85 Then..80. women were carried in chaires footed with gold. 1639Bury Wills (Camden) 182, I giue and bequeath..my stone pott..footed and tipt. a1652Brome City Wit iv. ii. Wks. 1873 I. 348 A fellow that wore worsted stockings footed. 1844Alb. Smith Adv. Mr. Ledbury I. xiv. 181 Various new-footed boots and shoes..ranged in pairs. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. x. 99 A large pair of footed trowsers.
†3. Having a length of (a specified number of) feet: in parasynthetic comb., as twelve-footed. Obs.
1616Sheldon Miracles Antichr. 303 The twelue-footed man, as he is measured by Petrus de Natalibus!
†4. Composed in metrical feet. Obs.
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 103 In footed verse. c1595Southwell St. Peter's Compl. Ded., This measured and footed stile. 1601Chester Love's Mart. (1878) 123 The..swanne In footed verse sings out his deep annoy.
5. Archery. Of an arrow: (see quot.).
1856H. A. Ford Archery v. 29 Arrows are either selfs or footed; the former are made of a single piece of wood; the latter..have a different and harder wood dovetailed on to them at the pile end. |
