paw

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The foot of an animal, especially a quadruped, that has claws or nails.
• noun Informal A human hand, especially a large clumsy one.
• intransitive verb To feel or strike with the paw or paws.
• intransitive verb To strike or scrape with a beating motion.
• intransitive verb To touch or handle clumsily or roughly.
• intransitive verb To feel or touch (another) in an annoying or unwanted way. synonym: touch.
• intransitive verb To scrape the ground with the forefeet.
• intransitive verb To handle someone or something clumsily, rudely, or with too much familiarity.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The hand or foot of an animal which has nails or claws: distinguished from hoof: as, a monkey's paw; the paws of a cat, dog, rat, etc. In many animals the fore feet, and in some the hind feet, are prehensile, and serviceable as hands.
• noun The human hand, especially when large or coarse, or when awkwardly used.
• To draw the fore foot along the ground; scrape with the fore foot.
• To scrape with the fore foot; strike with a drawing or scraping action of the fore foot.
• To handle roughly or clumsily, as with paws.Johnson.
• To fawn upon, as a spaniel upon his master.
• noun A trick.
• To secure or stop the motion of (a capstan, windlass, or ratchet-wheel) with a pawl.
• Improper; nasty; obscene.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
• noun The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.
• noun Jocose The hand.
• noun (Zoöl.) the tridacna; -- so called because shaped like an animal's paw.
• transitive verb To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely.
• transitive verb To scrape or beat with the forefoot.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Father; pa.
• noun The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.
• verb of an animal To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws
• verb of an animal To gently push on something with a paw.
• verb by extension, of a human To touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way.
• verb by extension, of a human To clumsily dig through something.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb touch clumsily
• noun the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
• verb scrape with the paws
• noun a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped