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Footed
·adj Having a foothold; established.
II. Footed ·adj Having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot.
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Leaf
·vi To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to <<Leave>>; as, the trees leaf in May.
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Leaf
Of a tree. The olive-leaf mentioned Gen. 8:11. The barren fig-tree had nothing but leaves (Matt. 21:...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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leaf
To go off with the fall of the leaf; to be hanged: criminals in Dublin being turned off from the out...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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leaf
The side of a lock-gate.
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Bay leaf
·- ·see under 3d Bay.
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Cleft-footed
·adj Having a cloven foot.
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Cloven-footed
·adj ·Alt. of Cloven-hoofed.
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Fin-footed
·adj Having palmate feet.
II. Fin-footed ·adj Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.
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Five-leaf
·noun Cinquefoil; five-finger.
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Flat-footed
·adj Firm-footed; determined.
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Leaf-nosed
·noun Having a leaflike membrane on the nose;
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Light-footed
·adj Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris.
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Lion's leaf
·- A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which cont...
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Lobe-footed
·adj <<Lobiped>>.
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Mouth-footed
·adj Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws.
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Oar-footed
·adj Having feet adapted for swimming.
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Polt-footed
·adj Having a distorted foot, or a clubfoot or clubfeet.
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Rough-footed
·adj Feather-footed; as, a rough-footed dove.
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Strip-leaf
·noun Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
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Sumatra leaf
·add. ·- A thin, elastic, uniformly light-colored tobacco leaf, raised in Sumatra and extensively us...
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Sure-footed
·adj Not liable to stumble or fall; as, a sure-footed horse.
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Tickle-footed
·adj Uncertain; inconstant; slippery.
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Tiger-footed
·adj Hastening to devour; furious.
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Turtle-footed
·adj Slow-footed.
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Web-footed
·adj Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl.
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Wing-footed
·adj Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying.
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Leaf, Walter
Litt.D.
(b. 1852)
Scholar and translator. The Iliad of Homer translated into English Prose (with A...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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bitter-leaf
n.
a Tasmanian name for the Native Hop. See hops and hop-bush.
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broad-leaf
n.
a settlers' name for Griselinia littoralis, Raoul; Maori name, Paukatea.
1879. W. N. Blair, `Bu...
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flax-leaf
n.
the blade of the New ZealandFlax (q.v.).
1884. T. Bracken, `Lays of Maori' p. 69:
«Zephyrs sti...
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jelly-leaf
n.
i.q. Queensland hemp (q.v.).
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leaf-insect
n.
See phasmid.
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walking-leaf
n.
See phasmid.
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flat-footed
Firm-footed, resolute; firmly, resolutely. A term belonging to the Western political slang with whic...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Leaf, Leaves
The word occurs in the Authorized Version either in singular or plural number in three different sen...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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pig-footed bandicoot
n.
name given to Choeropus castanotis, Gray, an animal about the sizeof a rabbit, belonging to the ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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silver-leaf boree
n.
i.q. boree (q.v.).
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