Feet
[fiːt] or [fit]
Definition
(n. pl.) See Foot.
(n.) Fact; performance.
(pl. ) of Foot
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Definition
pl. of Foot.—adj. Feet′less without feet.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing your own feet, is omnious{sic} of despair. You will be overcome by the will and temper of another. To see others' feet, denotes that you will maintain your rights in a pleasant, but determined way, and win for yourself a place above the common walks of life. To dream that you wash your feet, denotes that you will let others take advantage of you. To dream that your feet are hurting you, portends troubles of a humiliating character, as they usually are family quarrels. To see your feet swollen and red, you will make a sudden change in your business by separating from your family. This is an evil dream, as it usually foretells scandal and sensation.
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Examples
- As shown in the original designs, Fig. 116, she is a double ender, whose sides were to be 5 feet thick. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The large and powerful engines on the Great Western Railway have, however, only two driving wheels, which are 8 feet in diameter. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Poor Oliver tried to keep up with the coach a little way, but was unable to do it, by reason of his fatigue and sore feet. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Sometimes their feet failed them, and they sank together in a heap; they were then propped up with the monitors' high stools. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- After a minute's silence, he looked down at Amy, who sat on the cricket at his feet, and said, with a caress of the shining hair. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- At his feet an opening looked out upon a green sward, and at a little distance beyond was the dense wall of jungle and forest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I knew it was three hundred and sixty-four feet wide, and consequently wider than the capitol. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Stripping his harness from him I securely bound his hands behind his back, and after similarly fastening his feet tied him to a heavy gun carriage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- In this a vacuum is maintained by a condenser, the vapors passing from the pan to the condenser through the great curved pipe rising from the top, which pipe is five feet in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The tube is 52 feet long, 4 feet diameter in the middle, tapering to a little over 3 feet at the ends. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It was afterwards gradually raised by hydraulic presses to the top, a height of 100 feet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It was indeed a moveable pair of stairs, the lowest end placed at ten feet distance from the wall of the chamber. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- There was a jaded aspect on the business lanes and courts, and the very pavements had a weary appearance, confused by the tread of a million of feet. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But there was no support for the rider's feet, and the vehicle was propelled by thrusting his feet alternately against the ground. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They had no sense of the other possibility, the gulf of the republican extremists, that yawned at their feet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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