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ˈfour-ˌfooted, a.
[f. four a. + foot n. + -ed2.]
Having four feet, quadruped.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 43 Innan þan ilke sea weren un⁓aneomned deor summe feðer fotetd. a1300Cursor M. 19848 All four foted bestes sagh he bun. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 19 Foure footed beastes. 1714Berkeley Serm. Wks. 1871 IV. 606 Birds and fourfooted beasts. 1887Sir R. H. Roberts In the Shires ix. 150 Many a four⁓footed friend..would eat from no hand but mine.
b. Of or pertaining to four-footed animals.
a1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. iii. §14 Expose not thyself by four-footed manners unto monstrous draughts, and caricatura representations. 1698Dryden Ovid's Metam. Fables (1700) 435 Whose Art in vain From Fight dissuaded the four-footed Train. 1840Hood Kilmansegg, Her Accident vi, The Maid rides first in the fourfooted strife.
c. quasi-adv. On four feet.
1718Prior Knowledge 631 All the living that four-footed move Along the shore, the meadow, or the grove. |