in anatomy. See Anatomy, part I.

the Latin and Greek poetry, a metre or measure, composed of a certain number of long and short syllables.

These feet are commonly reckoned twenty-eight, of which some are simple, as consisting of two or three syllables, and therefore called disyllabic or trisyllabic feet; others are compound, consisting of four syllables, and are therefore called tetrasyllabic feet.

The disyllabic feet are four in number, viz. the pyrrhichius, spondeus, iambus, and trocheus. See Pyrrhichius, &c.

The trisyllabic feet are eight in number, viz. the dactylus, anapaestus, tribachys, molossus, amphibrachys, amphimacer, bacchius, and antibacchius. See Dactyl, &c.

The tetrasyllabic are in number sixteen, viz. the proleusmaticus, dispondeus, choriambus, antipastus, diambus, dichoreus, ionicus a majore, ionicus a minore, epitritus primus, epitritus secundus, epitritus tertius, epitritus quartus, paeon primus, paeon secundus, paeon tertius, and paeon quartus. See Proleusmaticus, &c.

Foot is also a long measure, consisting of 12 inches.

Geometers divide the foot into 10 digits, and the digit into 10 lines.

Foot square, is the same measure both in breadth and length, containing 144 square or superficial inches.

Cubic or Solid Foot, is the same measure in all the three dimensions, length, breadth, and depth or thicknesses, containing 1728 cubic inches.

Foot of a horse, in the menage, the extremity of the leg, from the coronet to the lower part of the hoof.

Foot level, among artificers, an instrument that serves as a foot-rule, a square, and a level. See Level, Rule, and Square.