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dry-foot, adv. (a.)|ˈdraɪfʊt|
Also without hyphen, and as two words: see dry and foot.
1. With dry feet; without wetting the feet.
c1200Ormin 10338 All common oferr driȝȝefot All alls itt waterr nære. a1225Julianna 32 Þu leddest israeles folc þurh þe reade sea..druifot. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 239 He wolde lede hem drie foot into þe londe of byheste. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xi. 43 Childer of Israel passed thurgh it drie fote. 1593Nashe Christ's T. 19 a, Ouer the waters of my Teares and tribulation, shee..passeth as drie-foote, as once they past ouer Iordan. 1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test., Evangelists, Walked upon the sea drie-foot.
†2. to draw dry-foot or hunt dry-foot: to track game by the mere scent of the foot. Also fig. Obs.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. iv. ii. 39 A hound that runs Counter, and yet draws drifoot well. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, ccxlix, When we read that wonder, and have trac'd Historie, dry-foot. 1651Life Father Sarpi (1676) 41 Like Dogs that draw dry-foot.
†3. attrib. or adj. Obs.
1608Machin Dumb Knt. iii. in Hazl. Dodsley X. 166, I care not for his dry-foot hunting. 1635Quarles Emblemes iv. viii, 213 And, from her sandy deepes, approach the dry-foot shore. 1672Shadwell Miser ii. Wks. 1720 III. 39 Thou art like a dry-foot dog. |