tigers foot

Bot.: Ipomea pes- tigridis . The stem and leaves are hairy; the flowers, which are involucrate, are small and white, with a tinge of purple. Common in India. *ti-ger-ăn-tic, a. [Eng. tiger; -antic.] Ravenous as a tiger. "The meridian of your tiger antic stomach." -T. Brown: Works, ii. 179. *ti-ger-ine, a. [Eng. tiger; -ine.] Tigerish. ti-ger-ish, a. [Eng. tiger ; -ish.) The same as TIGRISH (q. v.). *ti-ger-Işm, 8. [Eng. tiger ; -ism.] The qualities or character of a tiger. "His lordship now placed his hat on his head, slightly on one side. It was the ' tigerism ' of a past period, and which he could no more abandon than he could give up the jaunty swagger of his walk."-Lever: Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly , vol. ii., ch. x. *ti-ger-kin, s. [Eng. tiger ; dim in. suff. -kin .] A little tiger; hence, humorously, a cat. "Our domesticated tigerkin ."-Lytton: Caxtons , bk. xiv., ch. ii.