Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having four feet; quadruped: as, a four-footed animal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having four feet; quadruped.
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- adjective Having
four feet .
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- adjective having four feet
Etymologies
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Examples
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“In the name of Merlin and Maugis,” answered a hoarse, disagreeable voice, “tie up your fourfooted demon there, or I come not at you.”
The Talisman 2008
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Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Gay Marriage Is Now Legal In California! Ron Buckmire 2008
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Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
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And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
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Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
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And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
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He made sure that the dog was well fed and often wondered what had happened to his other fourfooted companion.
Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends Jeannette L. Faurot 1995
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I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, a certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me: upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
Acts 11. 1999
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While they now were making ready, there fell upon him a trance; (11) and he beholds heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as a great sheet, bound by four corners, and let down upon the earth; (12) wherein were all the fourfooted beasts and creeping things of the earth, and birds of the air.
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A religious silence prevailed, broken only by the occasional chirp of the wren, or the soft pattering of some smaller fourfooted race.
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