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lightfoot, a.|ˈlaɪtfʊt|
[light a.1]
1. poet. = light-footed. (Very common in 16th c.)
c1440Promp. Parv. 304/1 Lyght foote (MS. K. c 1490 liht fotyd), levipes. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. June 26 And lightfoote Nymphes can chace the lingring night. 1580Sidney Ps. xviii. ix, To match with lightfoote staggs, he made my foote so light. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iv. iv. 440 Some light-foot friend post to y⊇ Duke of Norfolk. 1600Fairfax Tasso vi. xxxvi. 100 The victor spurr'd againe his light-foot stead. 1832Tennyson Œnone 81 Light-foot Iris. 1896A. E. Housman Shropsh. Lad liv, By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot boys are laid.
fig.1624Quarles Sion's Elegies Poems (1717) 391 Hours, chac'd with lightfoot-minutes, end. 1871Swinburne Songs bef. Sunrise, Prelude 185 By rose-hung river and light-foot rill. 1880R. Broughton Sec. Th. II. iii. x. 275 The lightfoot hours dance by.
†2. quasi-n. A name for the hare, and the deer. Obs.
a1325Names of Hare in Rel. Ant. I. 134 He shal seien on oreisoun In the worshipe of the hare..The liȝt-fot, the fernsittere. 15..Kinge & Miller 85 in Furnivall Percy Folio (1868) II. 151 ‘Wiffe’ quoth the Miller, ‘feitch me forth lightfoote, that wee of his sweetnesse a litle may taste’. A faire venson pasty shee feiched forth presentlye. 1815Sporting Mag. XLV. 169 If light-foot elude the snare, not less than half a dozen of Chanticleer's family can compensate for the disappointment. |