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Make holyday : your ryeftraw hats put on, 
And thefe fre(h nymphs encounter every one 
In country footing. Skakefpeare. 
Steps; road; track.—Like running weeds, that have no 
certain root; or like footings up and down, impoflible to 
be traced. Bacon. —Entrance; beginning; eftablifhment. 
—The defeat of colonel Bellafis gave them their firft foot, 
ing in Yorklhire. Clarendon. 
No ufeful arts have yet found footing here ; 
But all untaught and favage does appear. Dryden. 
State; condition; fettlement_Gaul was on the fame 
footing with Egypt as to taxes. Arbuthnot. 
EOOT'LEVEL,/. with artificers, an inftrument which 
ferves the purpofes of a rule, a fquare, and a level. 
FOOT'LICKER, f. A Have; an humble fawner; one 
who licks the foot: 
Do that good mifchief which may make this ifiand 
Thine own for ever; and I, thy Caliban, 
For ay thy footlicher. Skakefpeare. 
FOOT'MAN,/ A foldierthat marches and fights on 
foot.—The numbers levied by her lieutenant did confift 
of footmen three millions, of horfemen one million. Ra¬ 
leigh. —A fervant in livery.—He was carried in a rich 
chariot, litterwife, with two horfes at either end, and 
two footmen on each fide. Bacon. 
Like footmen running before coaches, 
To tell the inn what lord approaches. Prior. 
FOOT'MANSHIP,/ The art or faculty of a runner. 
Yet, fays the fox, I have baffled more with my wiles and 
fhifts than ever you did with your footmanjkip. VEJlrange. 
FOOTOO'NA ISLAND, another name for Erronan, 
mne of the group called the New Hebrides, in the South 
Pacific Ocean. 
FOOT'PACE,/ Part of a pair of fiairs, whereon, af¬ 
ter four or five fteps, you arrive to a broad place, where 
you make two or three paces before you afcend another 
n'ep, thereby to eafe the legs in afcending the reft of the 
(fairs. Moxon. —'A pace no fafter than a flow walk. 
FOOT'PAD,/ A highwayman that robs on foot, not 
on horfeback. 
POOT'PATH,/. A narrow way which will not admit 
Lories or carriages : 
Enow’ft thou the way to Dover? 
—Both (tile and gate, horfeway and footpath. Skakefpeare. 
FOOT'POST, f A poft or meffenger that travels 
on foot.—For carrying fuch letters, every thoroughfare 
weekly appointeth a footpoji , whole difpatch is well near 
as fpeedy as the horfes. Carezo. 
FOOT'R.OPE, f. A fea term, the rope fattened to the 
foot of a fail. 
FOOT'SOLDIER,/ A foldier that ferves on foot. 
FOOT'ST ALK,/ in botany, the (talk which connects 
the leaf to the branch, called th t petiole ■, as peduncle does 
she (talk which bears the fruit. See the article Botany. 
FOOT'ST ALL,/ A woman’s ftirrup. 
FOOT'STEP,/ Trace; track; imprefflon left by the 
foot. —A man (hall never want crooked paths to walk in, 
if he thinks that he is in the right way, wherever he has 
the footfeps of others to follow. Locke. 
Clear-fighted reafon, wifdom’s judgment leads, 
And fenfe, her vaffal, in her footfeps treads. Denham. 
'FOOT'STOOL, /. Stool on which he that fits places 
his feet.—By the phrafe of worftiipping his footfool, no 
more is meant than worftiipping God at his footfool. 
Stilling feet. 
Let echoing anthems make his praifes known 
On earth, his footfool, as in heaven his throne. Rofcommon. 
FOOT'WALING, /. A fea term, the whole infide 
planks or lining of a (hip. 
FOP,/. [A word probably made by chance, and there¬ 
fore without etymology.] A fimpleton; a coxcomb ; a 
FOP 
man of fmall underftanding and much oftentation ; a pre. 
tender; a man fond of (how, drefs, and flutter.—The 
leopard’s beauty, without the fox’s wit, is no better than 
a fop in a gay coat. HEf range. 
When a fmall breeze obftruCts the courfe, 
It whirls about for want of force, 
And in its narrow circle gathers 
Nothing but chaff, and draws, and feathers; 
The current of fome female mind 
Stops thus, and turns with ev’ry wind ; 
Thus whirling round, together draws 
Fools, fops, and rakes, for chaff and draws. Swift. 
FOP'PENS (John-Francis), a learned Flemifh divine,, 
born about the year 1689, and died in 1761, in the feven- 
ty-fecond year of his age. He was appointed profeffor 
of theology at Louvain ; obtained a canonry and arch¬ 
deaconry under the archiepifcopal fee of Mechlin; and 
rendered himfelf refpeCted by his erudition, and by his 
virtues. He was the author of Bibliotheca Belgica, in 2 
vols. 4to. 1739; a collection into which he has properly 
introduced the works of Aubertus Miraeus, of Francis 
Swertius, and of Valerius Andreas, among the perform¬ 
ances which reflect honour on his native country, making 
confiderable additions to them, and continuing the Belgic 
Bibliotheque from 1640, when that of Andreas termi¬ 
nates, to the year 1680. This is a work of confiderable 
merit, and defervedly much efteemed. He alfo publifhed 
in 1728, a new edition of Miraeus’s Opera Hf orica & Diplo - 
matica, in 2 vols. fol. improved with new notes and tables, 
and enlarged by a great number of diplomas unknown to 
Mirajus. Afterwards he increafed this collection by the 
addition of two volumes in folio, one publifhed in 1734, 
and the other in 1748. His other works were, Hiforia 
Epifcopatus Antwerpienfs, 4to. 1717; Hiforia Epifcopatus 
Sylvaducenfs, 4to. 1721 ; and, Chronologia Sacra Epifcopo- 
rum Belgii, ab anno 1561 ad annum 1761, nmo. a work in 
verfe, with hiftorical notes in profe. 
FOP'PERY,/ Folly; impertinence: 
Let not the found of (hallow foppery enter 
My fober licufe. Skakefpeare. 
Affectation of (how or importance ; (howy folly—Cam* 
brics, lace, velvets, and many other prohibited fopperies. 
Guthrie. 
And as my fatire burfts amain, 
See feather’d fopp’ry ftrew the plain. Shenfone. 
Foolery ; vain or idle praCtice ; idle affectation.—I with 
I could fay quaint fopperies were wholly abfent from 
graver fubjeCts. Swijt. 
But though we fetch from Italy and France 
Our fopperies of tune and modes of dance, 
Our fturdy Britons fcorn to borrow lenfe. Granville. 
FOP'PISH, adv. Foolifh ; idle; vain; 
F'ools ne’er had lefs grace in a year ; 
For wife men are grown foppifi. 
And know not how their wits to wear, 
Their manners are fo apilh. Skakefpeare. 
Vain in (how ; fooliftily oftentatious ; vain of drefs.—The 
Romans grew extremely expenfive and foppifi ; fo thaS 
Aurelian forbade men that variety of colours on their 
(hoes, allowing it (till to women. Arbuthnot. 
With him the prefent (till fome virtues have ; 
The vain are Iprightly, and the ftupid grave ; 
The ftothful negligent, thefoppifr neat. 
The lewd are airy, and the fly diicreet. Garth. 
FOP'PISHLY, adv. Vainly; oftentatioufly : 
Then rarely approach, and refpeCtfully bow, 
But not fulfomely pert, nor foppifily low. Lady M. W. M. 
FOPPISHNESS,/ Vanity; (liowy or oftentatious va¬ 
nity._I have feen parts of drefs, in themfelves ex¬ 
tremely beautiful, which at the fame time fubjeCt the; 
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