FOOT: 
Foot, called in Trench. fur Je ben pied. © See Falfe.Gar- 
LOP e 
uc as ’ 
horfe-foldiers, more commonly called cavalry. 
Lave cruit ought to be pafled into ae. regiment of foot, 
e under f five feet fix inches, or afliole 
pear to be in any inftance 
xa 
be wader 
in circumftances oe 
eee of a war, when 
thofe who retura to thei ; 
to ‘their Having been reduced greatly, 
tutions were ual a whe rein not e 
been admitted, but from tHe sbfolute ied e os 
during times of emer. ie ; any human being becomes 
n the. ie ape of shiva h 
um{pection 
e€tion “of recruits, as well as in nya hee 
3; it being alae ee neceflary, that every indivi- 
aL Tedes poflefling the proper flature, form, and oe 
gare fhould be oni and eT ae fince on thé prefen 
mind, ingenuity, profeffional fill of the artillerift, 
ious of the loweft mK the moft important confequences 
have ae been found to depen 
‘The of a foot-foldier correfponds with the rank of 
he fervice, in which he may ferve. 
yer diem ; in the foot-: 
be a defideratum with their ho 
Formerly every foot-foldier was s armed fa aa ee but it 
mplement, well. 
hich at leaft 
lutely nece 
Foor, in Mining, ‘fignifies 
ratum; thus to “foo 
it to its under ftratum 
the eye’s pe in Perfpeétive, is that point 
ip the; cic ng line made ae Wenel plane pafling through 
the eye and the centre of the pidure. 
Foor of the — line, 
made by 
the pore of ie 
‘to each the bottom, . of 2 a 
se i is to fink a fhaft through 
‘pidtur re 
a“ 07; in the Greek ae Lajin ‘Poet Ya - denotes a metr e 
v 
t A horfe i is faid to have a fat foot, when the, 
_ 
even, in refpect 
. ales therein, only all 
is that point. in the intarfediing 
a plane ae through the eye and, i 
or ; meafure =— of a certain Bence - pie and — 
pai are ce 
{yllables ah ; the proce choria 
oe are quadrifyllabic,, or comp ofed of a ilables. 
See each under its proper Head, : Sroupap, TamBic,. 
T here are alfo other feet, invented by grammarians, of 
five, fix, or more tain but Ene are not, worth the. 
recitin 
Hexameter verfes confit of. fix feet ; pentameters, only 
of five. 
foot in poetry feems to refemble a bar in mnufic. 
A trine among .the ancients was a portion of that foot or. 
ar; as with us a bar is 
apne, even in any o ' Poetry,’ 
an the ‘other hand, has but: a ion or pate a 
long fyllable and a fhort, york is its half.; and all the 
variet or verfe arifes fro h feet a ae as thefe 
two Gee of fyllables, es ae eompounde d, can be made’ 
to produce.”’ 
What is here faid of verfe, is equally appli- 
cable to ancient mufic, which was Rtridtly confined to verfe: 
the difference be- 
tween Hee of ancient and modern mufic, in a cledrer 
point RINE, 
Beating time with the fo 
n of Poetical Feet in Greek and Latin verfe. 
B wr 
gee 
talia : 
ballade, ee he Englith a ballad erly the. 
ak me import; implying heen a. fangs the eee of 
anterior to poetry 
connetion with t o 
n eloquent Paces : and dancing, a filept poetry. .. % 
» Even and odd, par and impar. In. a try, and’ 
particularly in iambic verfes, feet are pyar ge odd and 
of their fituation in the ve diets ae 
third, and fifth, foot of the verfe 
caufe thofe aupeee are not capable of being divided i ita 
twa equal parts. 
the a ungedy, the iambic vere, which. -pre-. 
ed uneven an the fp a ; 
fo that the oe > oe fix ” Fee eet, were to be. -- 
iambics, hecau e they w hi s regular mixturé of 
fpondees in ae uneven: feet ended the verfe the: mo 
cena and noble. 
The comic poets, die eile to difguife their mate and, : 
make it more like profe,’ took the contrary courfe; puttin g 
tseag where the’ tragic poets would only. have allowed? « 
iambics 
Foor is alfo a long eee pect of twelve. eee 
The fot ing is divided inte twelve inches, and the in 
into barley-corns. Thus Ue Englith flandard foot. Gt : 
Edw. I.) is = 12 lineal Englifh inches, = 36 barley- “COINS © 
= 16 digits,” = 4 aa = = Shade, = 53! nails, Haat Iz 
wet i f 
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