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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]