ppl. a. [f. FOOT sb. and v. + -ED.] Furnished with or having feet (rarely a foot).
1. a. Of a man or animal: Furnished with feet; having feet like (a dog, goose, etc.).
a. 1529. Skelton, Elynour Rummyng, 49.
| Foted lyke a plane, | |
| Legged lyke a crane. |
1608. Armin, Nest Ninn., A iv a.
| Bigge i’th small, ancle all, | |
| Footed broad and long, | |
| In Motly cotes, goes Iacke Oates, | |
| Of whom I sing this song. |
1661. J. Childrey, Brit. Baconica, 18. The Seal-fish is like a Pig; ugly faced, and footed like a Moldwarp: he loves musick, or any loud noise, and after the noise wil come a shore, almost above water, and sometime many of them will come a shore, and lye sleeping in holes of the cliffe where they kill them with Guns.
1727. Philip Quarll (1816), 18. An animal something like a fawn, twice as big as a hare, the colour of a fox, and faced and footed like a goat.
1854. H. H. Wilson, trans. Rig-veda, II. 91. The footless dawn is the precursor of footed beings.
1860. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., V. IX. iii. § 5. 220. From the sweeping glory of the sea we learn to love another kind of beauty; broad-breasted; level-browed, like the horizon;—thighed and shouldered like the billows;—footed like their stealing foam;—bathed in cloud of golden hair, like their sunsets.
b. in parasynthetic derivatives, q.v. under their first element (as brazen-, cat-, claw-footed, etc.), or as main words (e.g., BARE-, FOURFOOTED).
c. fig. Footed as or with the wind: having feet as swift as the wind.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., xiii. 215.
| And or’e the Champaine flies: which when th’assembly find, | |
| Each followes, as his horse were footed with the wind. |
1865. Swinburne, Atalanta, 45.
| Arcadian Atalanta, snowy-souled, | |
| Fair as the snow and footed as the wind. |
2. Of a shoe, stocking, piece of furniture, etc.: Having, or provided with, a foot or feet; also, mended with a (new) foot.
1453. Test. Ebor. (Surtees), II. 191. Item ij. salers broken, of silver gilted and foted.
1463. Bury Wills (Camden), 23. A chayer, iij. footyd stoolys.
c. 1530. in Gutch, Coll. Cur. (1781), II. 301. Item oone pleyne Pece footid and withe a Cover.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage, I. xvi. 85. Eightie women were carried in chaires footed with gold, and fiue hundred in others, footed with siluer, very sumptuously attired.
1639. Bury Wills (Camden), 182. I giue and bequeath … my stone pott (wch was my father’s) footed and tipt.
a. 1652. Brome, City Wit, IV. ii. Wks. 1873, I. 348. Coudst love a fellow that wore worsted stocking footed, and fed in Cooks shops.
1844. Alb. Smith, Adv. Mr. Ledbury, I. xiv. 181. Various new-footed boots and shoes … were ranged in such pairs as could be selected from them.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., II. x. 99. The extra jumper is a bear-skin jacket, or rather shirt, which after being put on is overlapped at the waist by a large pair of footed trowsers.
† 3. Having a length of (a specified number of) feet: in parasynthetic comb., as twelve-footed. Obs.
1616. Sheldon, Miracles Antichr., 303. The twelue-footed man, as he is measured by Petrus de Natalibus!
† 4. Composed in metrical feet. Obs.
1567. J. Maplet, A Greene Forest, or a Naturall Historie, 103. The Swanne is called the sweete singing Birde, for that (as it were in footed verse) before hir death she ioyeth.
c. 1595. Southwell, St. Peter’s Compl., Ded. To know the true vse of this measured and footed stile.
1601. Chester, Love’s Mart. (1878), 123.
| The sweete recording Swanne Apolloes ioy, | |
| And firy scorched Phaetons delight, | |
| In footed verse sings out his deep annoy, | |
| And to the siluer riuers takes his flight. |
5. Archery. Of an arrow: (See quot.).
1856. H. A. Ford, Archery, v. 29–30. Arrows are either selfs or footed; the former are made of a single piece of wood; the latter, and the more preferable, have a different and harder wood dovetailed on to them at the pile end.
