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Word Meanings - FOOTHOLD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.

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  • FOUNDATION
    The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
  • FOOTMARK
    A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
  • CONDITIONALITY
    The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
  • FOOTPLATE
    See
  • FOOTBRIDGE
    A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
  • FOOTHOLD
    A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.
  • STANDARD
    The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
  • STANDPOINT
    A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
  • FOUNDATIONER
    One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
  • STANDPIPE
    A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
  • CONDITIONAL
    Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
  • FOOTFIGHT
    A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.
  • FOOTROPE
    The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse. That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.
  • FOOTBATH
    A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.
  • FOOTBOARD
    1. A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet; as: The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive. The foot-rest of a coachman's box. 2. A board forming the foot of a bedstead. 3. A treadle.
  • FOOTHALT
    A disease affecting the feet of sheep.
  • FOOTPACE
    1. A walking pace or step. 2. A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase. Shipley.
  • FOOTHOT
    Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfloot. Gower. Custance have they taken anon, foothot. Chaucer.
  • FOOTWAY
    A passage for pedestrians only.
  • FOOTING
    The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot. Footing course , one of the courses of masonry at the foot of a wall, broader than the courses above. -- To pay one's footing, to pay a fee on first doing anything, as
  • GOOSEFOOT
    A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
  • SURFOOT
    Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed. Nares.
  • SALTFOOT
    A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
  • BYSTANDER
    One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
  • FOURFOOTED
    Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
  • AGAINSTAND
    To withstand.
  • FOALFOOT
    See COLTSFOOT
  • PLOWFOOT; PLOUGHFOOT
    An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow. Piers Plowman.
  • SHEEP'S-FOOT
    A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
  • LOBEFOOT
    A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.
  • COOTFOOT
    The pharalope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's.
  • TWO-FOOT
    Measuring two feet; two feet long, thick, or wide; as, a two- foot rule.
  • SPLAYFOOT
    A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
  • UNDERSTANDINGLY
    In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
  • BAREFOOTED
    Having the feet bare.

 

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