foolhen (folhen)

A grouse, especially the young bird. See the extract. [Western U. S.] In the early part of the season the young [grouse], and indeed their parents also, are tame and unsuspicious to the very verge of stupidity, and at this time are often known by the name of fool - hens among the frontiers-men. T. Roosevelt, Hunting Trips, p. 94. foolifyt (föʻli-fi), v. t. [ IMG:content-1618.png:[blocks in formation] =Syn. Silly, Foolish (see absurd ); shallow, brainle , harebrained, simple. foolishly (föʻlish-li), adv. In a foolish manner; without understanding or judgment; unwisely; indiscreetly. He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly , although he smart, Not to seem sensele of the bob. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. As foolishly . as I Deal with the che when I am drunk? William Morris , Earthly Paradise, III. 35. foolishne (föʻlish-nes), n. 1. The quality or condition of being foolish; want of understanding; folly. Is virtue then, unle of Christian growth, Mere fallacy, or foolishne , or both? Cowper, Truth, 1. 516. "Ugh!" cried the Sun, and vizoring up a red And cipher face of rounded foolishne , Push'd horse acro the foamings of the ford. Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette. 2. A foolish practice; an absurdity. The preaching of the cro is to them that perish fool ishne . 1 Cor. i. 18. =Syn. 1. Silline , stupidity, imbecility, dullne , doltishne , nonsense, absurdity. foolish-wittył, a. Foolish in wisdom. And [she] sings extemporally a woeful ditty; How love makes young men thrall, and old men dote: How love is wise in folly, foolish - witty . Shak ., Venus and Adonis, 1. 838, fool-killer (föl'kil"ėr), n. An imaginary personage invested with authority to put to death IMG:content-1619.png:[blocks in formation] ped , quadruped, centiped , etc., expede, impede , expedite, etc., peon, pawns, etc.; from the Gr., podagra , podocarp , etc., podium , peu , etc., dip- ody , tripod , etc., octopus , polypus , polyp , etc.] 1. In man and other vertebrate animals, the terminal part of the leg, upon which the body rests in standing; one of the pedal extremi- ties. Thou makes the for to ky e His mouthe by deuocyone and gastely prayere, bot thou tredis apone his fete and defoules thame. Hampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 28. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 1 Cor. xii. 15. Many a light foot shone like a jewel set In the dark crag. Tennyson, Prince , iii. In man the feet are the terminal segments of the posterior limbs, corresponding to the hands or the anterior extrem- ities, and extending from the ankle-joint or tibiotarsal articulation to the end of the toes. The foot is divided into three parts, the tarsus or ankle, the metatarsus or instep, and the phalanges, digits, or toes. It contains 26 bones: namely, 7 tarsals, the astragalus, calcaneum, scaphoid, cuboid, and 3 cune- iform bones; 5 metatarsals; and 14 phalanges, 3 to each IMG:content-1620.png:[ocr errors] of the digits except the great toe, which has 2. The axis of the foot is at right angles with that of the leg, and the whole sole rests upon the ground. The principal mus- cles acting upon foot are the anterior and posterior tibial, the three peroneal, m the gastrocnemii and soleus, and the flexors and extensors of the toes. In many mam- mals the structure of the foot is much the same as in IMG:content-1621.png:[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small] fool-trap (föl'trap), n. A trap or snare to catch fools. Bets, at first, were fool traps , where the wise, Like spiders, lay in ambush for the flies. Dryden. foor1 (för). [ for , för , pl. for on, pret. of far an , fare: see farel , v .] A dialectal (Scotch) preterit of farel . IMG:content-1622.png:[blocks in formation] which are plantigrade; but the term is extended usual- ly to the corresponding seg- ment of the fore limb. In digitigrade mammals which walk upon the toes, as cats and dogs, or upon the ends of the toes, as in hoofed quad- rupeds, the foot, properly speaking, extends up the limb: thus, in the horse, for example, the feet reach up to the hock of the hind limb and the so-called knee of the fore limb (see cut under peri odactyl ); but in popu- lar language foot is restrict- ed to the phalangeal part of the foot, which rests on the ground in walking. In birds the foot is properly the whole of the hind limb up to the tibiotarsal joint, com- monly but wrongly called the knee, and includes the tarsometatarsus and toes; the third principal segment of the hind limb, consisting of tarsus, me so cuneiform, and ectocunei- form, or inner, middle, and outer cuneiform bones. The foregoing seven bones constitute the tarsus, and i to ms , first to the fifth metatarsal, constitute the meta- tarsus. The remaining fourteen bones are the phalanges, three to each digit excepting the the great toe; h, distal phalanx of the hal- lux or great toe. but it is popularly restricted to the toes alone. In rep- tiles and batrachians which have limbs, the foot is the terminal segment of either fore or hind limb, as in other vertebrates. The hind foot is technically called the pes . 2. In invertebrate animals, some part serving the purpose of a foot. (a) In mollusks, any surface or part of the body upon which the animal rests or moves. It is often extensile or protrusible, as in gastropods, and is technically called the podium . See cuts under Helicidæ and Lamellibranch i at a . (b) In insects, specifically, the tar- sus. (c) In arthropods, the leg. The modifications of the limbs have different names, as swimming - feet or pliopods , ambulatory feet , etc. (d) In worms, one of the bristly ap- pendages called parapodia . See cut under præstomium. (e) In echinoderms, a tubular prolongation of the body through an ambulacrum. See tube - foot . (f) In protozo- ans, a temporary prolongation of the body, called a false foot. See pseudopodium . 3. Milit ., soldiers who march and fight on foot; infantry as distinguished from cavalry: used collectively for foot - soldiers : as, a regiment of foot ; the Tenth (regiment of) foot . Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed, Single or in array of battle ranged Both horse and foot , nor idly mustering stood. Torkington , Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 28. In a Parlour at his beds feete were 3000 Talents of golde. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 363. When she cam to the gallows foot, The saut tear blinded her ee. IMG:content-1623.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1624.png:[blocks in formation] The groove... divides the bottom of the type into two parts called the feet . Encyc. Brit ., XXIII. 698. Specifically-(a) The part of a stocking or boot which receives the foot. (b) A mechanical contrivance acting like the foot of a man in the propulsion of automatic ma- chines. (c) The lower part of the leg of a chair or any other support or shaft. 5. The lowest part or foundation; the part op- posite to the head or top; the bottom; also, the and one fall of the human foot in dancing or in beating time. The time or syllable marked alike by the ictus or stre of voice, and by the beat of foot or hand in mark- ing time, they accordingly called the thesis (θέσις) ting down' (of and the remaining interval be- fore or after this the arsis (ἄρσις) or 'raising' (of the foot). Many Latin and modern writers have introduced great confusion into metrical nomenclature by directly inter- changing the meaning of the words arsis and thesis . (See arsis .) An uninterrupted succe ion of feet constitutes a colon or series, and the name line or verse is given to a colon, cola, or period, if written in one line. In accen- tual poetry, as in English, and other modern languages in which the syllabic accent is chiefly a stre of the voice, the rhythmical ictus regularly coincides with the syllabic accent, and the relative length of time taken in pro- foot nouncing a syllable is almost entirely disregarded. In the poetry of the Greeks, Romans, Hindus, and other nations in whose languages the syllabic accent was chiefly a matter of tone or pitch, quantity that is, the length of time taken in pronouncing each syllable - determined the rhythm. In Greek and Roman rhythmics and metrics a unit of time is a umed, called a primary or fundamental time or mora, or specifically a time, and this is regarded as the ordinary or normal short (marked), and expre ed in verbal composition by a short syllable. The ordinary or normal long (marked-) is equal to two times or more, and is expre ed by a long syllable. Metrical cla ification of such feet is based either on metrical magnitude -- that is, on the length of the foot as measured in moræ or times, each long being reckoned as two shorts-or on the pedal ratio -that is, the proportion of the number of times in the thesis to that in the arsis. From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks; strong foot ! yet ill able Ever to come up with Dactyl trisyllable. Cole ridge, Metrical Feet. 12. In music: ( a ) A drone-ba . (b) A chorus or refrain; a burden. (c) In organ-building: (1) The part of a pipe below its mouth. (2) A measure or name used in denoting the pitch of stops. The standard of reference is the length of an open pipe belonging to the second C below middle C. A unison 2310 The Dutch Captain here put his foot into the conversation. O. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 62. To set on foot, to originate; begin; put in motion; as, to set on foot a subscription. Such designs are generally set on foot by the secret motion and instigation of the peers and nobles. Bacon , Political Fables, viii., Expl. He, then, who sets a colony on foot, designs a great work. R. Choate, Addre es, p. 90, To take foott, to take to one's heels. Come on to me now, Livings ton, Or then take foot and flee. Lord Livings ton (Child's Ballads, III. 346), Washing of feet, a ceremony in the Roman Catholic, Greek, Ru ian, and some other churches, as those of the Dunkers, Winebrennerians, etc., in commemoration of Christ's washing of the feet of his disciples after the last supper (John xiii. 4-17), both as a symbol of spiritual cleansing and as a le on to them of humility and good will. The washing of others' feet, for their relief from the effects of exposure in a hot climate with but slight or no covering, has always been a common practice in Oriental countries, generally performed by menials; and religious ideas have often been a ociated with the practice. In the Roman Catholic Church the ceremony is observed on Thursday of Holy Week. The pope washes the feet of thirteen poor is about 8 feet long. Similarly, an octave stop is called a 4-foot stop; a double or suboctave stop, a 16-foot stop, etc. (See stop. ) The usage has been extended to the designation of the pitch of particular tones and of instruments, Thus, the second C below middle C is called 8-foot C, and all the tones in the octave above it 8-foot tones, or tones in the 8-foot octave, while the first C below middle Cis called 4-foot C, etc. Thus, also, the piccolo is called a 4-foot instrument, because its tones are an octave above the notes written. 13. The commercial name for one of the small plates of tortoise-shell which line the carapace: commonly used in the plural.-14. One of the small marginal plates of the upper shell of the hawkbill turtle. Also called nose. - 15t. Sediment: same as foots. Much of this Waxe had a great foote and is not so faire waxe as in times past wee haue had. You must cause the foote to bee taken off before you doe weigh it. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 306. Accentual feet. See accentual. - Ball of the foot. See ball1. By foot, by walking. - Cubic foot, a cube whose side is one foot, and which therefore contains 1,728 cubic inches.-Dactylic foot. See is or rhythmic. - Druid's foot. See Druid. - Drusian foot. See Drusian1. False feet. (a) In Protozoa, pseudopods. (b) In Crustacea, the swimming-feet or abdominal appendages.Foot-and-mouth disease, aphthæ epizooticæ, a contagious affection which attacks cattle and other animals, manifesting itself by lamene , indisposition to eat, and general febrile symptoms, with eruptions of small vesicles on the feet, in the mouth, and elsewhere. It may be communicated to persons who drink the unboiled milk of cows affected with the disease. Foot of a fine. See finel.-Fungus foot of India, Madura foot. Same as mycetoma. Geometrical or philosophical foot, a foot in use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by writers of all countries, equal, according to the researches of De Morgan, to about 9.8 English inches. An inch (is) one-tenth of a philosophical foot . Locke, Human Understanding, IV. x. 10, note. On foot. (a) Standing or moving on the feet; afoot. And Vifin light down on foote to sp[e]ke with this man, and hym axed what he was. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 72. To come on fote to hunt and shote To get us mete in store. The Nut - Brown Maid (Percy's Reliques, p. 182). Though I got very close up to my game, they were on foot before I saw them, and I did not get a standing shot. T. Roosevelt, Hunting Trips, p. 301. (b) In health or activity; able to go about. [Colloq.] (c) In progre ; going on. It was a glorious July morning, and there was nothing particular on foot . In the afternoon, there would be drives and walks, perhaps. Mrs. Whitney, Leslie Gold thwaite, viii. Square foot, a square whose side is one foot, and which therefore contains 144 square inches. To bind or tie hand and foot. See hand. To brace the feet, to understand (something); be or become posted (on any subject); learn or know the ropes: a sailors' phrase, apparently from the literal bracing of the feet in the rigging of a ship. To cover the feet, in Scrip ., to ease nature. And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet . 1 Sam. xxiv. 3. To fall on one's feet, to find one's feet. See the verbs. - To keep one's foott, to maintain proper conduct. Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God. Eccl. v. 1. To know the length of one's foot, to understand a person thoroughly; take his measure. Nosce teipsum, take the length of your own foot . Withals. To put one's best foot forward or foremost. (a) To use all po ible despatch. But put your best foot forward , or I fear That we shall mi the mail. Tennyson, Walking to the Mail, (b) To appear to the best advantage; make as good an appearance or impre ion as po ible; use one's most effective resources; do one's very best. To put one's foot in it, to spoil a thing completely; ruin it make a me of it; get one's self into a scrape. To put one's foot into, to enter into; join in. Catholic churches wash the feet of twelve poor persons. The ceremony is also called mandatum or maundy. See Maundy Thursday. foot (fut), v. [ The little girls were timid and grave. As they footed slowly up the aisle, each one took a moment's glance at the English man. R. L. Stevens on , Inland Voyage, p. 193. 2. To tread to measure or music; dance; skip. He saw a quire of ladies in a round, That featly footing seem'd to skim the ground. Dryden, Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 216. My feet, which only nature taught to go, Did never yet the art of footing know. Sir J. Davies , Dancing. 3. In falconry, to seize the game with the talons and kill it. A hawk is said to foot well, or to be a good footer, when she is succe ful in killing. Many hawks are very fine ftyEncyc. Brit., IX. 7. ers without being good footers. 4. To amount to; sum up: as, their purchases footed up pretty high. [Colloq.] II. trans. 1. To tread with the feet, as in walking; traverse on foot; pa over by walking: as, to foot the green; to foot the whole distance. Swith old footed thrice the old [wold]. footboy To lo a hath forgot that it was sometime sackt, and beggars that ener they carried their fardles on foot back , Nash, Pref. to Greene's Menaphon. foot-balister† (fútʼbal"is-tér), n. An unmounted archer. foot-ball (fuût'bal), n. 1. A ball consisting ori- ginally of an inflated bladder, now of a hollow globe of india-rubber or of heavy canvas satu- rated with rubber, cased in leather, round or oval in shape, and designed to be driven by the foot in the game called by the same name. See def. 2. The sturdie plowman, lustie, strong, and bold, Over cometh the winter with driving the foote - ball , Forgetting labour and many a grievous fall. Alex . Barclay , quoted in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, [p. 169. 2. A game played with such a ball by two par- ties of players on a level plot of ground, at each end of which is a goal through or beyond which the players strive to drive the ball. There are va- rio us ways of playing the game, the two most commonly recognized being the "A ociation" and the "Rugby game, the latter either in its original form or as played in America in a modified form. The field is 330 feet long by 160 wide, and in the middle of each end is a goal formed of two upright posts, in the Rugby game 18) feet apart with a cro -bar 10 feet above the ground, and in the A ociation game 24 feet apart with a cro -bar 8 feet from the ground. There are 11 players on each side (in the Rugby game sometimes 15), divided into rushers and backs ; the spe- cial object of the former being to check their opponents and to rush or push forward the ball in a body, and of the latter to kick or run with the ball. The two sides cast lots, the winner having the privilege of beginning the game with po e ion of the ball, or of selecting the goal. In the Rugby game the players can kick, run with, or throw the ball (but not throw it forward toward their opponents' goal); in the A ociation game they can only kick it. The play- ing is begun by kicking off the ball from midway between the goals, and the players strive to force the ball through or beyond their opponents' goal. In the A ociation game, to win a goal the ball must be kicked through the goal below the cro -bar, and the side securing the largest num- ber of goals wins the game. In the Rugby game scoring is by goals , touch - downs , and safety touch - downs or safeties, A goal is won by kicking the ball through or above the goal-posts over the cro -bar; a touch-down, by carrying the ball behind the goal and there touching it to the ground, which gives the player a try that is, the right to carry the ball out in front of the goal and try to kick a goal; a safety touch-down or safety, by forcing one's opponents to touch the ball to the ground behind one's own goal. The play continues for a certain length of time (in 1896 one hour and ten minutes), divided into two parts by a short intermi ion, at which time the players change sides. Foot- ball is an ancient game, probably introduced into Great Britain by the Romans, though the first distinct mention Shak., Lear, iii. 4. of it is in Fitzstephen's History of London, about 1175. IMG:content-1625.png:[blocks in formation] Lochmaben Harper (Child's Ballads, VI. 8). [Tripping up his heels.] 2. To strike with the foot; kick; spurn. You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me, as you spurn a stranger cur, Over your threshold. For there the pride of all her heart will bow, When you shall foot her from you, not she you. Shak ., M. of V., i. 3. Beau, and Fl . , Wit at Several Weapons, v. 1. 3. To fix firmly on the feet; set up; settle; establish. Despatch us with all speed, lest that our king Come here himself to question our delay; For he is footed in this land already. Shak . , Hen. V., ii. 4. IMG:content-1626.png:[blocks in formation] 80 women were carried in chaires footed with gold, and 500 in others footed with silver, very sumptuously attired. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 85. 6. To add, as the numbers in a column, and set the sum at the foot: generally with up : as, to foot up an account.-7. To pay; liquidate: as, to foot the bill. [Colloq., U. S.] To foot her up, in seine - fishing , to keep the bottom of the net from lifting from the ground during the proce of hauling, by putting first one foot and then the other on its lower edge. To foot it. (a) To walk. Who that has seen it can forget the strange, elastic rhythm of the whole regiment footing it in time? (b) To dance. R. L. Stevens on, Inland Voyage, p. 203. Lo! how finely the Graces can it foote To the Instrument. Spenser, Shep. Cal., April. I'd foot it with e'er a captain in the county; - but these outlandish heathen allemandes and cotillons are quite beyond me. Sheridan, The Rivals, iii. 4. The danger attending this pastime occasioned king James I. to say, "From this court I debarre all rough and violent exercises, as the foot - ball , meeter for lameing than making able the users thereof." Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 169. 3. Figuratively, an object or a person subjected to hard usage or to many vici itudes or changes of condition: as, he was the foot - ball of fortune.