Having a part or portion cut out so as to leave a void or vacant space. Of shoes: Made with the front or uppers cut away or left open. Obsolete.

Esp. of a shoe or boot: having a high top. Cf. high-top, adj.

that is cut low; spec. (a) (of footwear) cut below the ankle; (b) (of women's clothing) cut so as to reveal the neck and (usually) the upper part…

Of shoes: that may fit either foot; straight. (Opposed to ‘right’ and ‘left’.) Obsolete. rare.

Designating imaginary or hypothetical footwear that enables the wearer to travel an extremely long distance very rapidly and unimpeded by any…

Wearing or provided with a spur or spurs. In attributive use.

Polished with blacking.

Of an item of clothing or footwear: made of thin or flimsy material.

Shoemaking. Of a boot or shoe: having the sole fastened to the upper by pegs (peg, n.1 2c). Of the sole of a shoe: fastened to the upper by pegs. Now…

Designating a rough heavy kind of boots or shoes.

(a) the tip of the wing of a bird, bat, or insect; (b) the outer end of the ‘wing’ of an aeroplane; (c) chiefly U.S., applied attributively to shoes…

Of a boot: (see fox, v. 6, foxing, n. 2).

Of a boot or shoe: made with a strong vamp like that of a brogue.

Of boots or boot-soles: Furnished with a welt. welted work n. the making of welted boots.

Designating footwear designed to ease or correct club foot or other deformities of the feet. Cf. orthopaedical, adj.

Having no tacks; made (as a sewn shoe) without tacks.

attributive. Designating shoes, etc., in very bright or luminous colours.

As a modifier, designating footwear resembling that (supposedly) worn by Jesus; spec. an open-toed (leather) sandal of a simple or functional style.

(a) having a pattern produced by pebbling; (b) (of a lens or spectacles) having the appearance of pebble (sense 2b).

Of a garment: made with little or no interfacing, stiffening, or other material which would give definition to its shape; designed to fit loosely or…