(stress variable), a. Having swift feet; running or going swiftly.

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c. 1600.  Shaks., Sonn., xix. Do what ere thou wilt swift-footed time To the wide world.

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1617.  Drumm. of Hawth., Forth Feasting, 47. Some swiftest-footted get her hence.

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1631.  Massinger, Emperor East, IV. ii. Swift-footed Atalanta.

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c. 1714.  Arbuthnot, etc., Mem. M. Scribl., xiii. Man-tiger … made a circle round the Chamber, and … the swift-footed Martin pursued him.

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1870.  Bryant, Iliad, I. I. 5. Achilles the swift-footed, answered thus.

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