| athlete's foot |
a common foot infection caused by fungi. Athlete's foot makes the skin itch and look scaly. |
| board foot |
a unit of measure for lumber, equal to one foot square and one inch thick. |
| calf's-foot jelly |
the cooled gelatinous edible stock of boiled calves' feet. |
| cloven foot |
see "cloven hoof." |
| crow's-foot |
(usu. pl.) fine wrinkles near the outer corner of a person's eye. |
| foot brake |
any brake requiring pressure of the foot, as in an automobile and on some bicycles. |
| foot fault |
in tennis, a violation caused if both feet are not behind the base line when one is serving. |
| foot it |
to go somewhere by walking. |
| foot soldier |
a soldier who marches and fights on foot; infantryman. |
| foot-and-mouth disease |
a severe, very contagious disease of animals such as sheep and cattle, characterized by fever and blisters in the mouth and around the feet or hooves, the teats, and the udder; hoof-and-mouth disease. |
| foot-candle |
a unit of illumination equal to that produced by one candela at a distance of one foot, or to one lumen per square foot. |
| foot-dragging |
deliberate slowness in taking requested action or in making a necessary decision. |
| foot-pound |
a unit of energy equal to the amount necessary to raise a weight of one pound to a height of one foot. |
| foot-pound-second |
of, designating, or pertaining to the system of measurement in which the foot, pound, and second are the basic units of length, mass, and time. |
| foot-poundal |
a unit of energy equal to the work done by the force of one pound, accelerating one foot per second per second, moving a distance of one foot. |
| neat's-foot oil |
a fatty oil obtained by boiling cattle bones and used as a dressing for leather. |
| on foot |
by walking. |
| put one's foot in one's mouth |
to say something regrettable, sometimes revealing one's own or another's secret by accident or revealing an opinion or assumption that should not have been stated openly. |
| rabbit's foot |
the hind foot of a rabbit, sometimes carried as a good luck charm. |
| single-foot |
the fast pace of a horse in which the legs move in pairs at each side but not quite at the same time; rack. [2 definitions] |