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four-foot, a. Obs. exc. poet. [f. four a. + foot n.] = four-footed.
[c893K. ælfred Oros. ii. iv. §3 ælces cynnes feower⁓fetes feos an. c900tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. xxx. [xxix.] (1891) 374 He..nales ðæt aan feðerfotra neata..ðone teoðan dæl..sealde. ]c1300Cursor M. 19848 (Edin.) Alle fourfote bestis saȝ he bune. 1732Swift Beasts' Confess. 201 For libelling the four-foot race. 1864Swinburne Atalanta 149 Yea, lest they smite us with some four-foot plague. |