FOO 
aa of a fail, denotes - lower edge or batto: 
ot-level, an oe — — to do i office 
both ae a level, a aie a foo 
The foot- level, Porchated Plat IV. “Surveying, fig. 1 
confifts.of two bra —- aho : inch broad; opening 
and ear ‘like at o-foat rule 
ele pa ce ne lowed half way up the fide of Sica 
to receive a kind tongue, or a piece of brafs, 
is fattened to one of _them, ans whereof the branches 
faitened to, where there is a 
branches will ftand at right angles; to the hea 
ftrument is likewife added a fquare piece of brafs ; by means 
whereof it 
ranges 3 ng on a per- 
pendicular line drawn on the tongue, fhews whether any 
pl I the inftrument is peste to be level or not. See 
Foor, sing on eld of. See Ligurenanr. 
Foor- ULE. 
Foorpen = “thofe to which the foot of the fail is 
fewed. The he ad the fame with the horfes of the 
yards. See Vicks 
pe diate! desotes the whole ae planks or lining 
of a fhip to prevent any Lien | se ballaft or cargo 
from falling between he floor-timber: 
a oe : Rural Economy, is the a 7 an affec- 
of the fheep, which doe b 
well anderftood. It fhould be well pe fa all forts of 
Suge and kept tied up with fome difcutient application. See 
HE fa 
r-paths, the walks, peihis or, ae tracks which are 
Bie in Pld by walking throug m when the land is 
under the plough, or fo or die e purpofe of hay o 
patture ; aie - walks on pa - of public roads eiicd 
or foot paffengers. In the former cafesthey are not unfre- 
quentl y highly i inconvenient sd injurious to the farmer, from 
the mifchief that ue) tearing up or 
beating down diferent ae of crops. 
Foort-plough, lgriculture, a name "formerly much 
uled to fignify a kind of {wing plou 
Foor-rot, in Rural Economy, an affeGtion or diforder in 
the feet of fheep. It moftly commences between the clawe 
of the fore-feet, with a flight amare en es a Na ing er 
this way the fhee Aiba lame, a 
faid to be very fubjeé to this rsa: but and forts ef theep 
are saaiead found to frequently fuffer fro 
removal, the part feed fhould ie oo and well 
clea ae without roc e quick, and then a cauftic fo- 
lation of the following on dropped upon it, the foot be- 
ing kept well: Mig ae . Two ounces of 
blue vitriol, the fam ty of roach alum, and 
ounce of verdigris , wi a quarter of an ounce: of muriated 
havea fhould be diffolved in a a of good diftilled 
vinegar. But there are many w aes e ufe of butter of 
antimony, applying it to the part by means of an iron 
fkewer, after being pared in ne manner fated above. It 
. 4; faid to be a very effe€tual remedy in this affetion 
‘Tti is always.a proper precaution. to feparate. the fheep that 
f comedian and dramatic writer, was born 
8 
bra aéto id which he 
FOO 
are thus affeéted from the _ of the flock. And it has = 
fated that the change of the fheep into a more fhort 
pein, t ig of great ule in pee the complaint, Scr 
-trenches, in Agriculture, a term fometimes. employ- 
ae Ry “fignify {mall fuperficial drains not more than a aor in 
widt 
FOOTA, in Geography, : oo of Africa, near 2 
fource of the Gambia, N. 10° oto 11% W.long. t ° 
to 11° 
Foora Torra, acountry of Africa, ov the rivers: 
ial a and Gambia, N. of Woolly, and N.W. of. 
FOOTE, Samuzt, in Biography, a parteade Englifh- 
nthe year 1717 at 
o, in Cornwall, where his father a in the commiffion 
d 
the ftage, and made his firft debut in the character of 
Moor o i ¢ opened on his own account,. 
n 1747, the little theatre in the Ha 
: a hunting party with the duke of 
sy ll from his horfe, by w. 
ame rai pee a pee impreffion on fe mind as to impair 
with a paralytic affeGtion,. 
Beveus to that event, he had. 
determined on quitting England, and {pending the remain 
rof his days i in France ; ; sae died age at moti on 
nad way thither, O€tober 1777 appears to have- 
hada pt reife of _ deat in wack = was a : difap- 
pointed. Prior t s departu re for the continent, he 
— sendy the portrait of his fr fend Welton, a cele.- 
in hive eyes 
ator of fine ima- 
gination, a a favourite s a writer, he pof-- 
feffed a fund of wit, and avaft aptitude to feize and i improve: 
the ridiculous; but took unwarrantable liberties in expoling | 
the natural failings or aesaen _ manners in oe cha-- 
racters. So little did he attend to method in compofition, 
that it is faid he could never an a rogglar a or’ wind” 
up properly goer oe pieces are piincipally: farees, or 
yaa neres 
= for him 
