ˈswift-foot, a. and n.
A. adj. = swift-footed.
| 1594 Kyd Cornelia iii. ii. 4 The Scithian swift-foote feareles Porters. 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. iii. Colonies 792 The swift-foot Tiger or fierce Lionesse. c 1611 Chapman Iliad xxiv. 151 Go, swift foot Iris. 1635 Quarles Embl. iv. iii. 25 The streames of swift-foot Rhene. 1875 Morris æneid iv. 180 Swift are her wings to cleave the air, swift⁓foot she treads the earth. |
B. n. A swift-footed person or animal, a fast runner; spec. = courser3.
| 1825 Selby Illustr. Brit. Ornith. I. 334 Cream-coloured Swiftfoot. Cursorius Isabellinus. 1869 Ruskin Q. of Air i. §20 The two Harpies, ‘Stormswift’ and ‘Swiftfoot’, are the sisters of the rainbow. 1887 Morris Odyss. xii. 539 The spirit of the Swiftfoot, the glorious æacus' seed. |