Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Slow-footed.

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

  • adjective rare Slow-footed.

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  • What Coleridge said of Ben Jonson's epithet for "turtle-footed peace," we may say of the label affixed to this rag-picker's bag of stolen goods: _The Passionate

    A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

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