单词 | four-footed |
释义 | four-footedadj. a. Having four feet, quadruped. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > four-footed fetherfootedc1175 four-footedc1175 four-foota1400 quadrupeded1542 quadrupedal1620 quadruped1649 quadrupedant1656 quadrupedical1824 tetrapod1859 quadrupedic1888 tetrapous1899 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 43 Innan þan ilke sea weren un~aneomned deor summe feðer fotetd. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19848 All four foted bestes sagh he bun. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Dijv Foure footed beastes. 1714 G. Berkeley Serm. in Wks. (1871) IV. 606 Birds and fourfooted beasts. 1877 R. H. Roberts Harry Holbrooke of Holbrooke Hall ix. 134 Many a four-footed friend..would eat from no hand but mine. b. Of or pertaining to four-footed animals. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > four-footed > of a quadruped quadrupedian1647 quadrupedal1660 quadrupedial1663 four-footeda1682 quadrupedan1800 tetrapodous1831 quadrupeda1835 a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 98 Expose not thy self by four-footed manners unto monstrous draughts, and Caricatura representations. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Twelfth Bk. Metamorphoses in Fables 435 Whose Art in vain, From Fight dissuaded, the four-footed Train. 1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg i, in New Monthly Mag. 60 95 The Maid rides first in the fourfooted strife. c. quasi-adv. On four feet. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adverb] > in a quadrupedal manner four-footed1718 quadrupedally1847 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 420 All the living that four-footed move Along the shore, the meadow, or the grove. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1175 |
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