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Foot and Leech Definitions

Foot

The lower extremity of the vertebrate leg that is in direct contact with the ground in standing or walking.

Leech

Any of various chiefly aquatic carnivorous or bloodsucking annelid worms of the class (or subclass) Hirudinea, of which one species (Hirudo medicinalis) was formerly widely used by physicians for therapeutic bloodletting.

Foot

A structure used for locomotion or attachment in an invertebrate animal, such as the muscular organ extending from the ventral side of a mollusk.

Leech

One that preys on or clings to another; a parasite.

Foot

The lowest part; the bottom:the foot of a mountain; the foot of a page.

Leech

(Archaic) A physician.
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Foot

The end opposite the head, top, or front:the foot of a bed; the foot of a parade.

Leech

Either vertical edge of a square sail.

Foot

The termination of the leg of a piece of furniture, especially when shaped or modeled.

Leech

The after edge of a fore-and-aft sail.

Foot

The part of a sewing machine that holds down and guides the cloth.

Leech

To bleed with leeches.
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Foot

(Nautical)The lower edge of a sail.

Leech

To drain the essence or exhaust the resources of.

Foot

(Printing)The part of a type body that forms the sides of the groove at the base.

Leech

To attach oneself to another in the manner of a leech.

Foot

(Botany)The base of the sporophyte in mosses and liverworts.

Leech

An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
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Foot

The inferior part or rank:at the foot of the class.

Leech

(figuratively) A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.

Foot

The part of a stocking or high-topped boot that encloses the foot.

Leech

A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.

Foot

A manner of moving; a step:walks with a light foot.

Leech

(archaic) A physician.

Foot

Speed or momentum, as in a race:"the only other Democrats who've demonstrated any foot till now"(Michael Kramer).

Leech

(Germanic paganism) A healer.

Foot

(used with a pl. verb)Foot soldiers; infantry.

Leech

(nautical) The vertical edge of a square sail.

Foot

A unit of poetic meter consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables in any of various set combinations. For example, an iambic foot has an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable.

Leech

(nautical) The aft edge of a triangular sail.

Foot

In classical quantitative verse, a unit of meter consisting of long and short syllables in any of various set combinations.

Leech

To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.

Foot

Abbr. ft. or ftA unit of length in the US Customary and British Imperial systems equal to 12 inches (0.3048 meter). See Table at measurement.

Leech

To drain (resources) without giving back.
Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.

Foot

FootsSediment that forms during the refining of oil and other liquids; dregs.

Leech

To treat, cure or heal.

Foot

To go on foot; walk. Often used with it:When their car broke down, they had to foot it the rest of the way.

Leech

See 2d Leach.

Foot

To dance. Often used with it:"We foot it all the night / weaving olden dances"(William Butler Yeats).

Leech

The border or edge at the side of a sail.

Foot

(Nautical)To make headway; sail.

Leech

A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
Leech, heal thyself.

Foot

To go by foot over, on, or through; tread.

Leech

Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.

Foot

To execute the steps of (a dance).

Leech

A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.

Foot

To add up (a column of numbers) and write the sum at the bottom; total:footed up the bill.

Leech

To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.

Foot

To pay; defray:footed the expense of their children's education.

Leech

To bleed by the use of leeches.

Foot

To provide (a stocking, for example) with a foot.

Leech

Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end

Foot

A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
A spider has eight feet.

Leech

A follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

Foot

(anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
Southern Italy is shaped like a foot.

Leech

Draw blood;
In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment

Foot

(often used attributively) Travel by walking.
We went there by foot because we could not afford a taxi.
There is a lot of foot traffic on this street.

Foot

The base or bottom of anything.
I'll meet you at the foot of the stairs.

Foot

The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
We came and stood at the foot of the bed.

Foot

The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
The host should sit at the foot of the table.

Foot

A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
The feet of the stove hold it a safe distance above the floor.

Foot

A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
The flag pole at the local high school is about 20 feet high.

Foot

(music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.

Foot

Foot soldiers; infantry.
King John went to battle with ten thousand foot and one thousand horse.

Foot

(cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.

Foot

(sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.

Foot

(printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.

Foot

(printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.

Foot

(prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.

Foot

(phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.

Foot

(nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
To make the mainsail fuller in shape, the outhaul is eased to reduce the tension on the foot of the sail.

Foot

(billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.

Foot

(botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.

Foot

(malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.

Foot

(molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.

Foot

(geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.

Foot

Fundamental principle; basis; plan.

Foot

Recognized condition; rank; footing.

Foot

(transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).

Foot

(transitive) To pay (a bill).

Foot

To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.

Foot

To walk.

Foot

To set foot on; to walk on.

Foot

(obsolete) To set on foot; to establish; to land.

Foot

To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).

Foot

To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
To foot (or foot up) an account

Foot

The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes.

Foot

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

That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.

Foot

The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain, column, or page; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed; ; the foot of the page.
And now at footOf heaven's ascent they lift their feet.

Foot

Fundamental principle; basis; plan; - used only in the singular.
Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason.

Foot

Recognized condition; rank; footing; - used only in the singular.
As to his being on the foot of a servant.

Foot

A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.

Foot

Soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry, usually designated as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry.

Foot

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

The lower edge of a sail.

Foot

To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.

Foot

To walk; - opposed to ride or fly.

Foot

To kick with the foot; to spurn.

Foot

To set on foot; to establish; to land.
What confederacy have you with the traitorsLate footed in the kingdom?

Foot

To tread; as, to foot the green.

Foot

To sum up, as the numbers in a column; - sometimes with up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account.

Foot

To seize or strike with the talon.

Foot

To renew the foot of, as of a stocking.
If you are for a merry jaunt, I'll try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

Foot

A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard;
He is six feet tall

Foot

The foot of a human being;
His bare feet projected from his trousers
Armored from head to 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

Foot

Travel by foot;
He followed on foot
The swiftest of foot

Foot

A foot of a vertebrate other than a human being

Foot

A support resembling a pedal extremity;
One foot of the chair was on the carpet

Foot

Lowest support of a structure;
It was built on a base of solid rock
He stood at the foot of the tower

Foot

Any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates

Foot

An army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot;
There came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot

Foot

A member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger

Foot

A group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm

Foot

Pay for something;
Pick up the tab
Pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages
Foot the bill

Foot

Walk;
Let's hoof it to the disco

Foot

Add a column of numbers

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