foots (futs)

pl. [A conformed pl. of foot, in the deflected sense of sediment: see foot, n., 15.] Refuse or sediment, as at the bottom of a sugar or oil-cask, etc. Foots , bottoms, or such like names, have been borrowed from the tar-distiller to signify the refuse products of the stills. Ure, Dict., III. 771. The darkest foots [in sugar], so called from its receiving the drainage or moisture from the other portion of sugar in the hogshead while in a horizontal position during the voyage from the West Indies. H. Weather by , Sugar, p. 18. foots am (fut's am), n. [For * footseam , foot + seam2, grease.] Neat's-foot oil. [Prov. Eng.] foot-scent (fut's ent), n. In hunting , the scent of a trail. Pointers find their game by the scent being blown to them from the body, constituting what is called a "body scent," and not from that left by the foot on the ground, which is called a " foot - scent ." Dogs of Great Britain and America , p. 230.