catsfoot

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English

Etymology

From cat's +‎ foot. For its obsolete figurative sense, see cat's-paw.

Noun

cat's-foot

  1. Synonym of cat's-paw: a foot of a cat; (figurative, obsolete) a person used unwittingly or through trickery by another.
    • c. 1661 Argyle's Last Will in The Harleian Miscellany, Vol. VIII, p. 30:
      ...like the Monkey, that took the Cat's Foot to pull the Chesnut out of the Fire...
  2. (botany) Synonym of ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea).
    • 1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Ground Iuie, or Alefoot”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book II, page 705:
      It is commonly called […] in English ground Iuie, Alehoofe, Gill creepe by ground, Tunehoofe, and Cats foote.
  3. (botany) Synonym of mountain cudweed (Antennaria dioica(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace {{taxlink}} with {{taxfmt}} if already defined. Add nomul=1 if not defined.)).
    • 1739, John Sparrow translating Henri François Le Dran as Observations in Surgery, p. 119:
      ...an Infusion made with the Heads of White Poppies, Cat's-foot, Colt's-foot, and Maiden-hair.

References

  • "cat's-foot, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

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