footstep (futstep)

[ Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip Ps. xvii. 5. 2313 Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents. Cant. i. 8. fop The foottrappe [var. footgrene , Oxf.] of hym is hid in the erthe. Wyclif , Job xviii. 10 (Purv.). Hence-3. pl . The steps taken or methods 2. The stocks. Nomenclator, 1585. proceedings or measures, or the track or path marked out by such a course: as, the conqueror's footsteps were everywhere marked by blood; to follow the footsteps or in the footsteps of one's predece or. Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. Ps. lxxvii. 19. Which (flattery] though I will not practise to deceive, Yet to avoid deceit I mean to learn; For it shall strew the footsteps of my rising. Shak., K. John, i. 1. Johnson proposed to follow in Lincoln's footsteps , but for a cautious experiment he substituted a dogmatic theory. G. S. Merriam, S. Bowles, II. 18. 4t. An evidence or token of anything done; a manifest mark or indication. I am an utter stranger to these things, and know not the least foot - steps for them so to charge me. Quoted in Winthrop's Hist. New England, I. 373. Relations heertofore accounted fabulous have bin after found to contain in them many foot - steps and reliques of something true. Milton, Hist. Eng., i. No Footsteps of the Victor's Rage Left in the Camp where William did engage. Prior , Carmen Seculare, st. 12. 5. In mech.: (a) The pillow in which the foot of an upright or vertical shaft works. (b) An inclined plane under a hand printing-pre . foot-stick (fut's tik), n. In printing, a tapering strip of wood or metal placed between the foot of a page or pages and the chase, to receive the impact of the quoins used in locking up the form.