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foreleg
(ˈfɔəlɛg; but the stress is variable)
[f. fore- prefix + leg n.]
One of the front legs of a quadruped; also, rarely one of the anterior limbs of a biped.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. (1692) 1079 A grete wulfe syttyng and embracyng the heed betwene his forleggys. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxvii. iii, His forelegges latyn, and of fethers full. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 133 When a Horses neere fore-legge, and his neere hinder-legge..are so fastened together. 1658Osborn Adv. Son (1673) 83 A Carver at Court..being laughed at by him [King James] for saying the wing of a Rabbit, maintained it as congruous as the fore-leg of a Capon, a Phrase used in Scotland. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xi. ii, The beast now unluckily making a false step, fell upon his fore legs. 1862Huxley Lect. Wrkg. Men 23 The foreleg of the Horse. 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 13 Though he got his fore legs well on the bank he was short with his hind ones. |