These are the meanings of the letters OXHOFT when you unscramble them.
- Foot (n.)
A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent.
- Foot (n.)
A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.
- Foot (n.)
Fundamental principle; basis; plan; -- used only in the singular.
- Foot (n.)
Recognized condition; rank; footing; -- used only in the singular.
- Foot (n.)
Soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry, usually designated as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry.
- Foot (n.)
That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.
- Foot (n.)
The lower edge of a sail.
- Foot (n.)
The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain or column; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed.
- Foot (n.)
The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum.
- Foot (n.)
The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes.
- Foot (v. i.)
To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- Foot (v. i.)
To walk; -- opposed to ride or fly.
- Foot (v. t.)
The size or strike with the talon.
- Foot (v. t.)
To kick with the foot; to spurn.
- Foot (v. t.)
To renew the foot of, as of stocking.
- Foot (v. t.)
To set on foot; to establish; to land.
- Foot (v. t.)
To sum up, as the numbers in a column; -- sometimes with up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account.
- Foot (v. t.)
To tread; as, to foot the green.
- Hoof (n.)
A hoofed animal; a beast.
- Hoof (n.)
See Ungula.
- Hoof (n.)
The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc.
- Hoof (v. i.)
To be on a tramp; to foot.
- Hoof (v. i.)
To walk as cattle.
- Hoot (n.)
A derisive cry or shout.
- Hoot (n.)
The cry of an owl.
- Hoot (v. i.)
To cry out or shout in contempt.
- Hoot (v. i.)
To make the peculiar cry of an owl.
- Hoot (v. t.)
To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.