footknave 
Of my linini no hrlpe i crave, 
I ne have jione other futeknave. 
Yicaine and Qauin (ed. Rltson), 1. 2575. 
foot-lathe (fiit'laTH), . A lathe in which mo- 
tion is imparted to the spindle by a treadle ; a 
lathe moved by foot-power. 
footless (fut'les), a. [< foot + -less.] Having 
no feet; without footing or basis. 
Dreamful wastes where footless fancies dwell 
Among the fragments of the golden day. 
Tennyson, Maud, xviii. 
foot-level (fut'lev''el), n. A hinged one-foot 
rule, with a spirit-level in the upper edge of 
one arm, and a pivoted steel blade, graduated 
up to 45, in the other arm. Also called com- 
bination-level. 
footlights (fut'llts), n. pi. In theaters, a row of 
lights placed on the front of the stage, nearly 
on a level with the feet of the performers. For- 
merly called floats. 
As long as Clairon exercised the power, when she ad- 
vanced to the footlights, to make the (then standing) pit 
recoil several feet, by the mere magic of her eyes, the pit 
. . . flung crowns to her, and wept at the thought of los- 
ing her. Doran, Annals of Eng. Stage, I. xix. 
While the floor of the stage runs from the footlights to 
the rear wall of the building, the entire depth is rarely 
utilized. Scritaur's Mag., IV. 438. 
To appear before the footlights, to appear on the 
stage. To smell of the footlights, to show an inclina- 
tion for or connection with theatrical concerns ; be stagy 
in deportment or language : as, her manners smell of the 
footlights. to smell the footlights, to acquire a taste 
for acting. 
foot-line (fiit'lin), . 1. In finking, the lead- 
line or lower line of a net or seine, to which 
sinkers are attached opposite the cork-line. 
2. In printing, the last line of a page of type, 
usually blank, or containing only the signature 
of the sheet at regular intervals, but sometimes 
having in it the folio or number of the page. 
footling 1 (fut'ling), n. [(foot + -lingl.] 1. A 
small foot. Wright. 2. Anything no bigger 
than one's foot. Wright. 
footling 2 (fut'ling), a.' [(foot + -lingl.] Hav- 
ing the foot foremost : applied in obstetrics to 
cases in which a foot presents. 
foot-loose (fut'los), a. Free; untrammeled ; dis- 
engaged. 
footman (fut'man), n. ; pi. footmen (-men). [< 
ME. footman, foteman, fotman, a foot-soldier, a 
running footman ; ( foot + man.] 1. A soldier 
who marches and fights on foot. 
They assemblyd . . . 
Syxty thousand footmen. 
Richard Coer de Lion, 1. 2951 (Weber's Metr. Bom., II.). 
Distract your army, which doth most consist 
Of war-inark'd/oo<meii. Shale., A. and C., Hi. 7. 
The other princes put on harnesse light, 
As footmen use. Fairfax. 
2. A walker; a pedestrian. [Rare.] 
Though practice will soon make a man of tolerable vig- 
or an able footman, yet, as a help to bear fatigue, I used 
to chew a root of ginseng as 1 walked along. 
William Byrd, quoted in Tyler's Amer. Lit., II. 2T7. 
3f. Formerly, a runner in attendance upon 
a person of rank ; later, a servant who ran 
before his master's carriage for the purpose of 
rendering assistance on bad roads or in cross- 
ing streams, but mainly as a mark of the con- 
sequence of the traveler: distinctively called 
a running footman. He was usually dressed in a light 
black cap, a jockey-coat, and white linen trousers, and 
carried a pole six or seven feet long. 
Mony of hem fotemen ther ben, 
That renueu by the brydels of ladys schene [sheen, bright, 
fair). Babees Book (E. E. T. 8.), p. 320. 
I will dismount, and by the waggon-wheel 
Trot like a servile footman all day long. 
Shak., Tit. And., v. 2. 
4. In later and present use, a male servant 
whose duty it is to attend the door, the car- 
riage, the table, etc. ; a man in waiting. 
Would Chloe know if you're alive or dead? 
She bids her/oo(m<m put it in her head. 
Pope, Moral Essays, II. ii. 178. 
The dessert was not carried out till after nine ; and at 
ten footmen were still running to and fro with trays and 
coffee-cups. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xvii. 
5f. A stand of brass or other metal placed in 
front of a fire to hold anything which is to be 
kept hot. 
They were to me like a dumb waiter, or the instrument 
constructed by the smith, and by courtesy called a foot- 
mart ; they did what I required, and I was no further con- 
cerned with them. Godttnn, Mandeville, III. 67. 
6. In entom., one of certain bombycid moths; 
a lithosiid. Cuckoo's footman, the wryneck. 
footman-moth (fut'man-motn), n. A bomby- 
cid moth of the family Litltusiiila: 
2312 
footmanship (fut 'man-ship), n. [(footman + 
-ship.] The art or business of a footman. 
Come, Tony, the footmanship I taught you. 
Midilleton and Rowley, Changeling, iv. 3. 
footman's-innt, . A poor lodging. Nares. 
Which at the heeles so hants his frighted ghost, 
That he at last in footman's-inne must host, 
Some castle dolorous compos'd of stone, 
Like (let me see) Newgate is such a one. 
Rowlands, Knave of Hearts (1013). 
foot-mantlet (fufman'tl), n. [( ME./ofc- 
tel; (foot + mantle.] In the fourteenth cen- 
tury a'ud later, an outer garment used to pro- 
tect the dress when riding. Apparently it was 
used by women only, and was the original of 
the modern riding-habit. 
Afoot-mantel about hire hipes large. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 472. 
footmark (fut'mark), n. A mark of a foot; a 
footprint; track. 
foot-muff (fut'muf), n. A receptacle for the 
feet, lined with fur, etc., to keep them warm 
in winter, especially in a carriage or sleigh. 
foot-note (fut'not), n. In printing, a note at 
the bottom of a page as an appendage to gome- 
thing in the text, usually explaining a passage in 
the text, or specifying authority for a statement, 
footpace (fut'pas), n. 1. A slow step, as in 
walking. 2t. A mat; something on which to 
place the feet. 
Storea, a mat, a footpase of sedges. Nmundator. 
Unless I knew 
It were a truth I stood for, any coward 
Might make my breast his foot-pace. 
Miildli'iim and Rowley, Fair Quarrel, 11. 1. 
3. A landing or resting-place at the end of a 
short flight of steps, being a stair or tread 
broader than the others. Also called half-pace. 
When it occurs at the angle where the stair 
turns it is called quarter-pace. 4f. Formerly, 
the dais in a hall. See the extract. 
The term footpace, Fr. haut pas, was given to the raised 
floor at the upper end of an ancient hall. Vide Parker's 
Glossary of Architecture. N. and <j., 6th ser., XI. 438. 
5. Eceles., the platform or raised dais upon 
which an altar immediately stands, it extends 
a short distance teyond each end of the altar, and two 
steps lead up to it from the floor of the sanctuary or chan- 
cel. Throughout the greater part of the mass or comma- 
uion-ofHce the celebrant stands on the footpace, the dea- 
con one step and the subdeacon two steps lower ; but after 
the first words of the Gloria in Excelsis and the Creed, 
and at the Hanctus, the deacon and suhdeacon ascend to 
the priest's side ; and the deacon also does so at certain 
other times, as at the beginning of the canon or prayer of 
consecration, in order to assist the priest. 
6t. A hearthstone. Halliwell. 
footpad (fut'pad), n. [(foot + pad*.] A high- 
wayman who robs on foot; specifically, one of 
a large class, existing in Europe when police 
authority was still in an ineffective condition, 
who made a business of robbing people passing 
on horseback or in carriages. 
foot-pad (fut'pad), n. [< foot + pad?.] I. A 
pad fitted over the sole of a horse's foot to pre- 
vent balling in snow. 2. An anklet of leather 
strapped on a horse's foot to prevent inter- 
fering; a boot. 3. In entom., a cushion-like 
expansion on the lower surface of the tarsal 
joints : applied especially to the onychium, or 
membranous cushion between the tarsal claws. 
Also called foot-cushion mA pulvillus. See cut 
under flesh-fly. 
foot-page (fut'paj), n. Afootboy; an attendant 
or lackey ; an errand-boy. 
He has call'd his little foot-page 
An errand for to gang. 
Jellon Grame (Child's Ballads, II. 286). 
foot-passenger (fut'pas"en-jer), n. One who 
travels on foot ; especially, one who pays toll 
for passing on foot, as over a bridge. 
The arches [of the St. Louis and Illinois bridge] are to 
carry a double railway track, and above the track a road- 
way 54 feet wide for carriages and /oof passengers. 
Eneye. Brit., IV. 340. 
foot-path (fut'path), n. A narrow path or way 
for foot-passengers only. 
Glo. Know'st thou the way to Dover? 
Edtj. Both stile and gate, horse-way and/oof -path. 
Shot., Lear, Iv. 1. 
Yielding, along their rugged base, 
A flinty footpath's niggard space. 
Scott, Rokeby, ii. 7. 
foot-picker (fut'pik'er), n. An iron instrument 
for removing stones or dirt from between the 
shoe and the foot of a horse. Sci. Amer., N. S., 
LIV. 406. 
foot-plate (fut 'plat), n. 1. A carriage-step. 
2. The platform on which the engineer and 
fireman of a locomotive engine stand. 
foot-rot 
foot-plow (fut'plou), ii. A kind of swing-plow. 
foot-poet (fut'po"et), . A servile or inferior 
poet. Dryden. [Rare.] 
foot-post (fut 'post), n. A post or messenger 
who travels on foot. 
Carriers and footpusts will be arrant rells. 
Fletcher, Double Marriage, ill. 2. 
Am. Mr. Tridewel! well met. Why so fast, sir? I took 
you for a foot-poet. 
Tri. A foot-iiost! indeed, your fine wit will post you 
into another world one of these days, if it take not the 
whipping post i' th' way. And why foot-post, in your lit- 
tle witty 'apprehension? Brome, Northern Lass. 
foot-pound (fut'pound), n. A compound unit 
formed of a foot paired with the weight of a 
pound, used in measuring energy or work ; the 
energy required to raise a weight of one pound 
against gravity to the height of one foot. One 
foot-pound at the equator and the level of the sea repre- 
sents an amount of energy equal to 13.56 megaergs. 
foot-poundal (fut'poun-dal), n. [< foot-pound 
+ -/.] An absolute unit of energy, being the 
energy of an avoirdupois pound moving with a 
velocity of one English foot per mean solar sec- 
ond. It is equal to a foot-pound divided by the accelera- 
tion of gravity expressed in feet per second, or about 32.2, 
and is equivalent to 421,402 ergs. 
foot-press (fut'pres), n. A form of standing 
press in which the upper die or follower is de- 
pressed by a treadle. E. H. Kniglit. 
footprint (fut 'print), n. 1. The mark of a 
foot; an impression left by the foot in walk- 
ing. 
We can make our lives sublime, 
And, departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time. 
Longfellow, Psalm of Life. 
That we might see our own work out, and watch 
The sandy footprint harden into stone. 
Tennyson, Princess, ill. 
2. In aeol., an 
impression of 
the foot of an 
animal on the 
surface of a 
rock, such im- 
pression having 
been made at a 
time when the 
stone was in 
the state 
loose sand 
moist clay; 
ichnite. 
fopt-race (fuf- 
ras), n. A race 
run by persons 
on foot. 
Fossil Footprint, from the Triassic rocks 
near Boonton, New Jersey. 
The clown, the child of nature, without guile, 
Blest with an infant's ignorance of all 
But his own simple pleasures : now and then 
A wrestling match, a foot-race, or a fair. 
Coivper, Task, iv. 626. 
foot-rail (fut'ral), n. 1. In a railroad, a rail 
which has the foot-flanges wide-spreading, the 
web vertical, and the head bulb-shaped. E. H. 
Kniglit. 2. A horizontal wooden bar under- 
neath a car-seat for the passengers who oc- 
cupy the next seat behind to rest their feet 
on. Car-Builder's Diet. 3. In cabinet-making, 
a crosspiece, brace, or tie near the floor, as in 
some chairs, tables, etc. 
foot-rest (fut 'rest), n. 1. A short bench or 
stool used to support a person's feet. 2. A 
support for the foot of a horse while it is being 
shod. 
foot-rope (fut'rop), . [< ME. "fotrope, < AS. 
fotrap, a foot-rope (liL.propes), ( fot, foot, + 
rap, rope.] Naut. : (a) The bolt-rope to which 
the lower edge of a sail is sewed. (6) A rope 
extended under a yard from the middle to 
Foot-rope. 
the yardarm, and under the jib- and spanker- 
booms, for the men to stand on while reefing 
or furling. 
foot-rot (fut'rot), >i. A name applied to cer- 
tain inflammatorv affections about the hoof in 
