a part of the body of most animals whereon they stand, walk, &c. See Anatomy.

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

These feet are commonly reckoned 28: of which some are simple, as consisting of two or three syllables, and therefore called difyllabic or trifyllabic feet; others are compound, consisting of four syllables, and are therefore called tetrafyllabic feet.

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

The trifyllabic feet are eight in number, viz., the dactylus, anaepetus, tribrachys, molossus, amphibrachys, amphimacer, bacchius, and antibacchius. See Dactyl, &c.

The tetrafyllabic are in number 16, viz., the proceleufmaticus, dispondeus, choriambus, antipausus, diambus, dichoreus, ionicus a majore, ionicus a minore, epitritus primus, epitritus secundus, epitritus tertius, epitritus Foot is also a long measure consisting of 12 inches. Geometricians divide the foot into 10 digits, and the digit into 10 lines.

Foot-Halt, the name of a disorder peculiar to sheep. It is occasioned by an insect, which, when it comes to a certain maturity, resembles a worm of two, three, or four inches in length. See Farriery Index.

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 thickness, containing 1728 cubic inches.

Foot of a Horse, in the manege, 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.