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footless, a.|ˈfʊtlɪs|
[f. foot n. + -less. Cf. feetless.]
Having no foot or feet.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. cxv. (1495) 856 Amonge wormes some ben fotelesse: as adders and serpentes. c1400Destr. Troy 6475 Mony foteles freike of his fell dinttes. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 89 Some [creatures] head-less are, Foot-less, and fin-less. 1675Hobbes Odyss. (1677) 45 About him will his footless sea⁓calves lie. 1849H. Miller Footpr. Creat. ix. 157 The footless serpent, which ‘goeth upon its belly’. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 114 ‘What do you think of us?’ asked the footless officer.
b. of things (e.g. a stocking).
1611Cotgr., Breusse, a dish, or footlesse cup. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xx. (1856) 159 Some footless stockings, tied up at the lower end to serve as socks.
c. transf. and fig.
1795Coleridge Eolian Harp 24 Melodies..Footless and wild, like birds of Paradise. 1855Tennyson Maud xviii. viii, My love has..stol'n away To dreamful wastes where footless fancies dwell. |