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Definition of Footless
1. Adjective. Having no feet or analogous appendages.
Definition of Footless
1. a. Having no feet.
Definition of Footless
1. Adjective. Without feet. ¹
2. Adjective. (colloquial) Clumsy or inept. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Footless
1. having no feet [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Footless
Literary usage of Footless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"With the passion of all things free, With the sea-steeds footless and frantic.
White myriads for death to bestride In t In.- charge of the ruining Atlantic ..."
2. The Reptiles of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin: An Account of the Species by John Van Denburgh (1897)
"The habits and food of the footless Lizard or "Silver Snake" are the same as those of
... BLACK footless LIZARD. ..."
3. The Void of War: Letters from Three Fronts by Reginald John Farrer (1918)
"THE footless HORROR But most of them are outside in the fields, some sheeted and
some bare, monstrous and prehistoric in their rows. ..."
4. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1900)
"Having taken particular pains to collect all representations of the footless god,
I was specially interested in one ..."
5. Four Years Campaigning in the Army of the Potomac by Daniel G. Crotty (1874)
"... BUILDING FORTS AND REDOUBTS PICKETING—ARTILLERY DUEL A footless PAGE—OUR
PHOTOGRAPHER A BIG SHELL—BALLOONS EVACUATION OF YORKTOWN. ..."
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