web footed (webfuted)

Having web-feet; being web-toed, whether as an abnormality of persons, or as the natural formation of the feet of many aquatic animals. Many mammals are web-footed, as the seal, the otter, the muskrat, the beaver, and the duck-mole. Nearly all swimming and many wading birds are web-footed, to a varying extent in different cases. The salient batrachians are mostly webfooted, especially frogs, as to their hind feet. See web, n., 10, web, v. t., webbing, 3, pinniped, palmiped, palmate, semi palmate, totipalmate, with various cuts, and those under flying-frog, duckbill, and otary. Web web-footed ne (web'futed-nes), n. foot; the state of being web-footed. web-machine (web'ma-shēn"), n. Same as web - pre . web-pre (web'pres), n. A printing-machine which is automatically supplied with its paper from a great web or roll: usually a rotary machine, but the name is given to newspaper printing-machines of different constructions, like those of Hoe, Mar in on i, Walter, and others. See cut under printing - machine. web-saw (web'sa), n. A frame-saw. The web - saw , the glue-pot, the plane, and the hammer are the principal tools used. The Century, XXXVII. 418. webstert (web's ter), n . [= Sc. wabster ; web star , webbestre , a female weaver, webban , weave: see web and- ster . As with other ME. forms in -ster (strictly fem. in themselves), the word was also often regarded as masc. (cf. baxter and brewster1 , used as masc. in ME.). The name survives in the surname Webster.] A weaver. Wyclif , Job vii. 6. One witne says "a very good webster can scarcely earne fower pence a day wth weavinge." Record Soc. Lancashire and Cheshire , XI. 53. web ste rite (web's ter-it), n. [So named in honor of Thomas Webster (1772-1844), a Scottish geologist.] Aluminite; hydrous tribasic sulphate of aluminium, found in Su ex, England, and at Halle in Pru ia, in reniform ma es and botryoidal concretions of a white or yellowish white color. Webster's condenser. An apparatus consisting of two lenses, used in microscopy for intensifying the light thrown on the object. web-toed (web'tod), a. Web-footed.