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<p><b>9.</b> <fld>(Pros.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>10.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>The lower edge of a sail.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Foot</i> is often used adjectively, signifying <i>of or pertaining to a foot or the feet</i>, <i>or to the base or lower part</i>. It is also much used as the first of compounds.</note>

<cs> <col>Foot artillery</col>. <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>Artillery soldiers serving in foot.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>Heavy artillery.</cd> <i>Farrow.</i> -- <col>Foot bank</col> <fld>(Fort.)</fld>, <cd>a raised way within a parapet.</cd> -- <col>Foot barracks</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>barracks for infantery.</cd> -- <col>Foot bellows</col>, <cd>a bellows worked by a treadle.</cd> <i>Knight.</i> -- <col>Foot company</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>a company of infantry.</cd> <i>Milton.</i> -- <col>Foot gear</col>, <cd>covering for the feet, as stocking, shoes, or boots.</cd> -- <col>Foot hammer</col> <fld>(Mach.)</fld>, <cd>a small tilt hammer moved by a treadle.</cd> -- <col>Foot iron</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>The step of a carriage.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A fetter.</cd> -- <col>Foot jaw</col>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Maxilliped</er>.</cd> -- <col>Foot key</col> <fld>(Mus.)</fld>, <cd>an organ pedal.</cd> -- <col>Foot level</col> <fld>(Gunnery)</fld>, <cd>a form of level used in giving any proposed angle of elevation to a piece of ordnance.</cd> <i>Farrow.</i> -- <col>Foot mantle</col>, <cd>a long garment to protect the dress in riding; a riding skirt.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> -- <col>Foot page</col>, <cd>an errand boy; an attendant.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> -- <col>Foot passenger</col>, <cd>one who passes on foot, as over a road or bridge.</cd> -- <col>Foot pavement</col>, <cd>a paved way for foot passengers; a footway; a trottoir.</cd> -- <col>Foot poet</col>, <cd>an inferior poet; a poetaster. <mark>[R.]</mark></cd> <i>Dryden.</i> -- <col>Foot post</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A letter carrier who travels on foot.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A mail delivery by means of such carriers.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Fot pound</col>, &and; <col>Foot poundal</col></mcol>. <fld>(Mech.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Foot pound</er> and <er>Foot poundal</er>, in the Vocabulary.</cd> -- <col>Foot press</col> <fld>(Mach.)</fld>, <cd>a cutting, embossing, or printing press, moved by a treadle.</cd> -- <col>Foot race</col>, <cd>a race run by persons on foot.</cd> <i>Cowper.</i> -- <col>Foot rail</col>, <cd>a railroad rail, with a wide flat flange on the lower side.</cd> -- <col>Foot rot</col>, <cd>an ulcer in the feet of sheep; claw sickness.</cd> -- <col>Foot rule</col>, <cd>a rule or measure twelve inches long.</cd> -- <col>Foot screw</col>, <cd>an adjusting screw which forms a foot, and serves to give a machine or table a level standing on an uneven place.</cd> -- <col>Foot secretion</col>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Sclerobase</er>.</cd> -- <col>Foot soldier</col>, <cd>a soldier who serves on foot.</cd> -- <col>Foot stick</col> <fld>(Printing)</fld>, <cd>a beveled piece of furniture placed against the foot of the page, to hold the type in place.</cd> -- <col>Foot stove</col>, <cd>a small box, with an iron pan, to hold hot coals for warming the feet.</cd> -- <col>Foot tubercle</col>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Parapodium</er>.</cd> -- <col>Foot valve</col> <fld>(Steam Engine)</fld>, <cd>the valve that opens to the air pump from the condenser.</cd> -- <col>Foot vise</col>, <cd>a kind of vise the jaws of which are operated by a treadle.</cd> -- <col>Foot waling</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>the inside planks or lining of a vessel over the floor timbers.</cd> <i>Totten.</i> -- <col>Foot wall</col> <fld>(Mining)</fld>, <cd>the under wall of an inclosed vein.</cd></cs>

<cs> <mcol><col>By foot</col>, &or; <col>On foot</col></mcol>, <cd>by walking; as, to pass a stream <i>on foot<i>.</cd> -- <col>Cubic foot</col>. <cd>See under <er>Cubic</er>.</cd> -- <col>Foot and mouth disease</col>, <cd>a contagious disease <it>(Eczema epizo\'94tica)</it> of cattle, sheep, swine, etc., characterized by the formation of vesicles and ulcers in the mouth and about the hoofs.</cd> -- <col>Foot of the fine</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>the concluding portion of an acknowledgment in court by which, formerly, the title of land was conveyed. See <cref>Fine of land</cref>, under <er>Fine</er>, <tt>n.</tt>; also <er>Chirograph</er>. (b).</cd> -- <col>Square foot</col>. <cd>See under <er>Square</er>.</cd> -- <col>To be on foot</col>, <cd>to be in motion, action, or process of execution.</cd> -- <col>To keep the foot</col> <fld>(Script.)</fld>, <cd>to preserve decorum. "<i>Keep thy foot<i> when thou goest to the house of God."</cd> <i>Eccl. v. 1.</i> -- <col>To put one's foot down</col>, <cd>to take a resolute stand; to be determined.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> -- <col>To put the best foot foremost</col>, <cd>to make a good appearance; to do one's best.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</<mark> -- <col>To set on foot</col>, <cd>to put in motion; to originate; as, <i>to set on foot<i> a subscription.</cd> -- <mcol><col>To</col> <col>put, &or; set</col>, <col>one on his feet</col></mcol>, <cd>to put one in a position to go on; to assist to start.</cd> -- <col>Under foot</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>Under the feet; (<mark>Fig.</mark>) <cd>at one's mercy; as, to trample <i>under foot<i>.</cd> <i>Gibbon.</i> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>Below par.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "They would be forced to sell . . . far <i>under foot</i>." <i>Bacon.</i></cs>

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<hw>Foot</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Footed</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Footing</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To walk; -- opposed to <i>ride</i> or <i>fly</i>.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

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<hw>Foot</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To kick with the foot; to spurn.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To set on foot; to establish; to land.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>What confederacy have you with the traitors Late <b>footed</b> in the kingdom? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To tread; <as>as, to <ex>foot</ex> the green</as>.</def>

<i>Tickell.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To sum up, as the numbers in a column; -- sometimes with <i>up</i>; <as>as, to <ex>foot</ex> (or <ex>foot</ex> up) an account</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The size or strike with the talon.</def> <mark>[Poet.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To renew the foot of, as of stocking.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<cs><mcol><col>To foot a bill</col>, <cd>to pay it.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> -- <col>To foot it</col></mcol>, <cd>to walk; also, to dance.</cd></cs><-- = to hoof it (to walk) -->

<blockquote>If you are for a merry jaunt, I'll try, for once, who can <b>foot it</b> farthest. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Football</h1> <Xpage=580>

<hw>Foot"ball`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.</def>

<i>Waller.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The game of kicking the football by opposing parties of players between goals.</def>