footed, ppl. a.
(ˈfʊtɪd)
[f. foot n. 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 Rumming 49 Foted lyke a plane. 1608 R. Armin Nest Ninn. A iv a, Footed broad and long, In Motly cotes, goes Jacke Oates. 1661 J. Childrey Brit. Baconica 18 The Seal-fish is..footed like a Moldwarp. 1727 Philip Quarll (1816) 18 An animal..faced and footed like a goat. 1854 H. H. Wilson Rig-veda II. 91 The footless dawn is the precursor of footed beings. 1860 Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. ix. iii. §5. 220 Thighed and shouldered like the billows;—footed like their stealing foam. |
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. 216 Each followes as his horse were footed with the wind. 1865 Swinburne Atalanta 46 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, ij salers broken, of siluer gilted and footed. 1463 Bury Wills (Camden) 23 A chayer, iij. footyd stoolys. c 1530 in Gutch Coll. Cur. II. 301 Item oone pleyne Pece footid and with a Cover. 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage i. xvi. 85 Then..80. women were carried in chaires footed with gold. 1639 Bury Wills (Camden) 182, I giue and bequeath..my stone pott..footed and tipt. a 1652 Brome City Wit iv. ii. Wks. 1873 I. 348 A fellow that wore worsted stockings footed. 1844 Alb. Smith Adv. Mr. Ledbury I. xiv. 181 Various new-footed boots and shoes..ranged in pairs. 1856 Kane Arct. Expl. II. x. 99 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 Gr. Forest 103 In footed verse. c 1595 Southwell St. Peter's Compl. Ded., This measured and footed stile. 1601 Chester Love's Mart. (1878) 123 The..swanne In footed verse sings out his deep annoy. |
5. Archery. Of an arrow: (see quot.).
| 1856 H. A. Ford Archery v. 29 Arrows are either selfs or footed; the former are made of a single piece of wood; the latter..have a different and harder wood dovetailed on to them at the pile end. |