Foot vs. Leech

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

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.

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

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

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

(Archaic) A physician.

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

Either vertical edge of a square sail.

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

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

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

To bleed with leeches.

(Nautical)The lower edge of a sail.

To drain the essence or exhaust the resources of.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(archaic) A physician.

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

(Germanic paganism) A healer.

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

(nautical) The vertical edge of a square sail.

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.

(nautical) The aft edge of a triangular sail.

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

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

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.

To drain (resources) without giving back.

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

To treat, cure or heal.

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

See 2d Leach.

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

The border or edge at the side of a sail.

(Nautical)To make headway; sail.

A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.

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

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.

To execute the steps of (a dance).

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

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

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

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

To bleed by the use of leeches.

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

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

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

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

Draw blood;

(often used attributively) Travel by walking.

The base or bottom of anything.

The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.

The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.

A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.

A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.

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

Foot soldiers; infantry.

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

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

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

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

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

(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.

(nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.

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

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

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

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

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

Fundamental principle; basis; plan.

Recognized condition; rank; footing.

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

(transitive) To pay (a bill).

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

To walk.

To set foot on; to walk on.

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

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

To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.

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.

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.

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

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.

Fundamental principle; basis; plan; - used only in the singular.

Recognized condition; rank; footing; - used only in the singular.

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

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

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.

The lower edge of a sail.

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

To walk; - opposed to ride or fly.

To kick with the foot; to spurn.

To set on foot; to establish; to land.

To tread; as, to foot the green.

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

To seize or strike with the talon.

To renew the foot of, as of a stocking.

A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard;

The foot of a human being;

The lower part of anything;

Travel by foot;

A foot of a vertebrate other than a human being

A support resembling a pedal extremity;

Lowest support of a structure;

Any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates

An army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot;

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

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

Pay for something;

Walk;

Add a column of numbers