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ˈhare's-foot
1. A species of clover (Trifolium arvense), with soft hair about the flowers. Also called hare's-foot trefoil. (See also harefoot.)
1562Turner Herbal ii. 26 a, Lagopus maye be called in Englishe Haris foot or rough clauer. 1713J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 62 Its blush Flowers stand in a round flusey Head, like our Haresfoot. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. II. 109 Trifolium arvense (Hare's-foot Trefoil).
2. The Corkwood tree (Ochroma Lagopus) of the West Indies and Central America; so called from the dehiscent ripe fruit with the cotton of the seeds protruding from it. Treas. Bot. 1866.
3. a. A hare's foot used in applying rouge, etc., to the face.
c1800[see burnt cork s.v. burnt ppl. a. 7]. 1827L. T. Rede Road to Stage 38 Burn a cork to powder, wet it with beer (which will fix the colouring matter), and apply it with a hare's-foot, or a cloth. 1835Dickens Sk. Boz (1836) II. 206 The young lady with the liberal display of legs, who is kindly painting his face with a hare's foot. 1859E. Winstanley Shifting Scenes Theatr. Life xxi. 200 There are pots of rouge, hare's feet, powder⁓boxes. 1877‘Haresfoot & Rouge’ How to ‘Make-up’ 13 Then with a hare's foot apply a colouring of Rouge to the cheeks. 1939–40Army & Navy Stores Catal. 1097/1 Theatrical make-up... Hares' feet.
b. See harefoot 1.
4. attrib. hare's-foot fern, a name of Davallia canariensis; also extended to other species, as (in Australia) D. pyxidata. hare's-foot sedge, Carex lagopina. hare's-foot trefoil: see 1.
1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. VI. 27 Hare's-foot Sedge..a very rare plant. 1866Treas. Bot., Davallia, a..genus of polypodiaceous ferns..They have scaly creeping rhizomes, which feature has given rise to the name of Hare's Foot Fern, applied to D. canariensis. 1882Garden 29 Apr. 301/3 Davallia Fijiensis Plumosa [is] a very elegant Hare's-foot Fern. |