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.