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horse-foot
†1. A horses foot. Obs.
1375Barbour Bruce ii. 359 Knychtis..Wndyr horss feyt defoulyt thar. c1400Destr. Troy 5834 The Troiens..Harlet hym fro horsfet, had hym away. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cclxxvii. 666 Tvssilago or Folefoote hath..many great broad leaues..fashioned like an horse foote.
b. attrib. (See Hippocrene.)
1591Spenser Tears Muses 271 The sacred springs of horsefoot Helicon.
†2. The plant Coltsfoot (Tussilago Farfara); also applied to T. alpina (Mountain Horse-foot).
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cclxxvii. 666 Of Coltes foote, or Horse foote. 1633Johnson Gerardes Herbal ii. ccxcii. 815 This plant.. I have thought good to name in English Horse⁓foot, for that the leaves exceed Colts-foot in bignesse, yet are like them in shape.
3. a. A crustacean of the genus Limulus, also called horseshoe-crab or king-crab. b. A fossil molluscan shell (Hippopodium ponderosum) found in the Lias, so called from its shape.
1672J. Josselyn New Eng. Rarities 13 They feed..upon a shell-fish called a Horse-foot. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 3), Horse-Foot,..a crustacean found in our waters from Massachusetts to Virginia, and in some places so abundant as to be used for manure. 1883Pall Mall G. 21 Sept. 12/1 [The eels] are fed regularly every day on ‘horse-feet’, a peculiar shell-fish. |