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Show !‘ FO Fo What confed'racy have you with the traitor Late footed in the kingdom? = Shakefp. King Lea 3. To tread Saint Withold footed thrice the wold He met the night-mare, and her name told Bid her alight, and her troth plight And aroynt thee, witch, aroynt thee right, Shake/p There haply by the ruddy damfel feen Or thepherd boy, they featlyyfoor the green, Zicke/ 4. To hold with the foot W Not in ufe Foo'rsarr Herbert u /. [ foot and ball. der, cafed with leather, driven by the foot 1 fo round with you as you with me That like a fovtball you do fpurn me thus? Shake/p Such a Winter-piece fhould be beautified wit all manner of works and exercifes of Winter; a footballs, felling of wood, and fliding upon the ice Peacham As when a fort of Tufty fhepherds tr Their force at football, care of viGor Make them falute fo rudely, breaft to breaft That their encounter feems too rough for jeft, 7Zaller One rolls along a foorball to his foes One with a broken truncheon deals his blows. Dryd 2. The fport or practic football of kickin th He was fenfible the common football was a ver imperfect imitation of that exercife Arbuthnot and Pope's Mart, Scribl Foo'rrov #. [foor and bgy. A lo menial; an attendant in livery Was it difcretion, lords, to let this man This honeft man, wait like a lowfy footbo At chamber-door Shakefpeare's Henry VIII Though I had nobody to aflift but a footboy, ye T made fhift to try a pretty number of things. Boyle Whenever he imagines advantages will redoun to one of his foorboys by oppreflion of me, he neve difputes it Sawift Foo'tBrRIDGE. #. /. [ foot and bridge.] - bridge on which paflengers walk; ‘a narrow bridge Palemon's fhepherd, fearing the footbridge wa not ftrong enough, loaded it fo long, 'till he brok that which would have born a bigger burden. Sidxey Foo'rcrLoaTH. . /. [foot and cloarh. {fumpter cloth Three times a-day my footcloathhorfe did ffrumble .And ftarted when he looked upon the Tower " As loth to bear me to the flaughterhoufe Foo'rep. adj. [from foor. i oo Snouted and tailed like a boax goat Shakefp Shaped in th i horfeback and feore like Grew A figh oppofition t tha o So began our footfight in fuch fort, that we wer well entered to blood of both fides Sidney Foo'ruorv # / [ foor and hold. to hold the foot may tread furely fpac Spac on which on All fell to work at the roots of the tree, and lef it fo little foorhold, that the firft blaft laid it flat o . the ground L' Effrange He's at the top: he has nothing above him t afpire to, nor any foorhe/d left him to come dow by Foo'ring. . /. [from foor. ¥. Ground for the foot L'E/lmngf 1'1l read you matter deep and dangerous As full of peril and advent'rous fpiri As to o'erwalk a current, roaring loud On the unfteadfaft footing of a fpear. Shak. Hen. V1 As Noah's pigeon, which retuin'd no more Did fhew the footing found, for all the flood. Davies In afcents, every ftep gained is a footing and hel % the next Al JSootin thofe fublime thought herg the min thofe 1deas whic tak thei rif an ftirs not one jot beyon fenfe or reflection have offered Locke Lock 4+ Place; poffeffion Whether the untuous exhalations ar Fir'd by the fun, or feeming fo alone Or each fome more remote and flippery ftar Which lofes footing when to mortals thewn, Dryden 5. Tread walk As he forward moved his foating old So backward ftill was turned his wrinkled face Spenfer I would outnight you did no body come But hark, I hear the footing of a man. Shakefpeare Break oft, break off I feel the different foun Of fome chafteooting near about thisground. Milton 6. Dance Foolrpap, » f [foot and pad.] A hig wayman that robs on foot, not on horfe back Foo'rraru. narro o # Make holyday: your ryeftraw hats put on And thefe frefh nymphs encounter every on In country footing 7. Steps road Shakefpeare's Tempef? track beginning5 eftablifhment Ever fince our nation had any jfooting in thi land, the ftate of England did defire to perfect th conqueft The defeat o Colonel Bellafis gav Dawvies them thei Clarendon firt fuoting in Yorkfhire No ufeful arts have yet found fooring here Dryden Butall untaught and favage does appear g. State condition; fettlement Gaul was on the fame fooring with Egypt as t taxes Arbuthnor Foo'rLickERr. m an humbl foot [ foorand lick.] A flave fawner on wh lick th Do thatgood mifchief which may make this iflan Thine own for ever; and I, thy Caliban For ay thy footlicker Shakefpeare's. Tempe/? Foo'rmaN. z. /. [ foot and rman. 1. A foldier that marches and fights o foot Holder's Elements of Specch of footmen thre millions of horfemen one million 2. A low menial fervant in livery in a rich chariot, litterwife, wit two horfes at either end, and two foormen on eac Bacan fide Like footmen running before coaches Prior To tell the inn what lord approaches 3. One who pra&ifes to walk or run Foo'rmansurp. 7. f. [from fowtman. art or faculty of a runner Th f The Irifharchers efpying this, fuddenly broke up and committed the fafety of their lives to thei nimble footman/bip Hay Yet, fays the fox, I have baffled more of the with my wiles and fhifts than ever you did wit your footmanfbip L' Eftrange Foo'reack. n. f. [ foor and pace. 1. Part of a pair of ftairs, whereon afte four or five fteps, you arrive to a broa place, where you make two or thre pace befor yo afcen anothe ftep thereby to eafe the legs in afcending th reft of the fairs Moxon 2. A pace no fafter thana flow walk. an parh. way which will not admit horfe Cal'rlflges Know'ft thou the way to Dover -Both ftile and gate, horfeway and footpath. Shake z / [ foor and poft. 3 A pof or meflenger that travels on foot For carrying fuch letters, every thoroughfar weekly appointeth a_foorpoff, whofe difpatch is wel Carew near as fpeedy as the horles Foo'rstarvr. m /. [ fot and flall. man's ftirrup Foo'tsTePp. 7. [ [ foot and flep. 1. Trace foot track impreffio lef A wo b th Clear-fighted reafon, wifdom's judgment leads And fenfe, her vaffal, in her foorfteps treads. Denbants A man fhall never want crooked paths to wal in, if he thinks that he is in the right way, whereve Lacke he has the footffeps of others to follow . Token mark notice given [jot and foal.] ~ Stoo on which he that fits places his feet Foo'rsTooL 7. / Thus have we fwept fufpicion from our feat And made our footfodl of {ecurity. Shake. Henry V They whofe facred office 'tis to brin Kings to obey their God, and men their king By thefe myfterious links to fix and ty Men to the footffool of the Deity. Denbam's Sophys Let echoing anthems make his praifes know On earth, his_footffool, as in heaven his throne Rofeomnion By the phrafe of worfhipping his foorffool, " n more is meant than worfhipping God at his foot/doo/. Stilling fleet. FOP. 7. /. [A word probably made b chance, and therefore without etymolo gy.] A fimpleton; acoxcomb; a man of {mall underftanding and much often tation; a pretender; a man fond of thow, drefs, and flutter; an impertinent whole tribe of fops Shake/p. King Lear Got 'tween afleep and wake When fuch a pofitive abandon'd fop Among his numeraus abfurdities Stumbles upon fome tolerable line I fret-to fee them in fuch company Raleigh's Hiftory He was carrie [ foo 3. Example He giew ftrong among the Irifh; and in hi JSooting his fon continuing, hath increafed his fai name Spenfer on Ireland Like running weeds, that have no certain root or like footings up and down, impoflible to b traced Bacon's Henry V1 8. Entrance / Let us turn our thoughts to the frame of ou {yftem, if there we may trace any vifible fooiffep of Divine wifdom and beneficence. Bentley's Sermaons, The numbers levied by her lieutenant did confif Foo'rrieuT. 2. /. [ foot and fight. made on foot 3. Bafis; foundation and original 1. A ball commonly made of a blown bladA Set cloven ftakes; and wond'rous to behold Their tharpen'd ends in earth their footing place And the dry poles produce a living race, Dryd. Virg how to move, for want of a foundation and Sootin in moft men, who cannot trace truth to its fountai and caft about And till they foof and clutch their prey They never cool, much lefs give out root The reafoning faculties of the foul would not know | Foo'rrost arc the earth, and they Like moles within us, heav 2, Support FO Th leopard' beauty, withou Rofeommonts th fox' wit i L' Effrange no better than a fop in a gay coat In a dull ftreamy, which moving flow, You hardly fee the current flows When a fmall breeze obftructs the courle, It whirls about for want of force, And in its narrow circle gather Nothing but chaff, anditraws, and feathers The current of ‘a female min Stops thus, and turns with ev'ry wind 5 Thus whirling round, together draw Fools, fopsy and rakes,. for chaff: and ftraws Fo'epoepLE 7 f [fo and dwdle. Sawifz fool; an infignificant wretch Where fturdy butchers broke your noddle And handled. you like a fopdood/e Hudibras Fo'erery. 7. /. [from fop. 1. Folly; impertinence Let not the found of fhallow fopgery ente My fober houfe Shakefpeare's Merchant of Venice. ¥ was three or four times in the thought the were not fairies;, and yet the guiltinefs of my mind, the fudden furprife of m ers drove th nefs of the fuppery into a r f,-in d of the teeth of all rhyme and TEA100, that they wer fairies Shakefpeare's Mervy 777Hives of Windfors This is th nt foppery of the world,. tha when we are fick in fortune, often the furizits o our own behaviour, we make guilty of our difaiters, the |