Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 47
Fool (n.) One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
Fool (n.) A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.
Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools. -- Milton.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. -- Franklin.
Fool (n.) (Script.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. -- Ps. xiv. 1.
Fool (n.) One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
Can they think me . . . their fool or jester? -- Milton.
April fool, Court fool, etc. See under April, Court, etc.
Fool's cap, A cap or hood to which bells were usually attached, formerly worn by professional jesters.
Fool's errand, An unreasonable, silly, profitless adventure or undertaking.
Fool's gold, Iron or copper pyrites, resembling gold in color.
Fool's paradise, A name applied to a limbo (see under Limbo) popularly believed to be the region of vanity and nonsense. Hence, any foolish pleasure or condition of vain self-satistaction.
Fool's parsley (Bot.), An annual umbelliferous plant ({Aethusa Cynapium) resembling parsley, but nauseous and poisonous.
To make a fool of, To render ridiculous; to outwit; to shame. [Colloq.].
To play the fool, To act foolishly; to act the buffoon; to act a foolish part. "I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly." -- 1 Sam. xxvi. 21.
Fooled (imp. & p. p.) of Fool
Fooling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fool
Fool (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Fooled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fooling.] To play the fool.
Fool (v. i.) To waste time in unproductive activity; to spend time in idle sport or mirth; to trifle; to toy.
Syn: fool around.
Is this a time for fooling? -- Dryden.
Fool (v. t.) To infatuate; to make foolish. -- Shak.
For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit. -- Dryden.
Fool (v. t.) To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.
You are fooled, Discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent. -- Shak.
To fool away, To get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.
Fool (n.) A person who lacks good judgment [syn: fool, sap, saphead, muggins, tomfool].
Fool (n.) A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug].
Fool (n.) A professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages [syn: jester, fool, motley fool].
Fool (v.) Make a fool or dupe of [syn: fool, gull, befool].
Fool (v.) Spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away].
Fool (v.) Fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across].
Fool (v.) Indulge in horseplay; "Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about" [syn: horse around, arse around, fool around, fool].
Fool (n.) As used by hackers, specifically describes a person who habitually reasons from obviously or demonstrably incorrect premises and cannot be persuaded by evidence to do otherwise; it is not generally used in its other senses, i.e., to describe a person with a native incapacity to reason correctly, or a clown. Indeed, in hackish experience many fools are capable of reasoning all too effectively in executing their errors. See also cretin, loser, fool file.
The Algol 68-R compiler used to initialize its storage to the character string "F00LF00LF00LF00L..." because as a pointer or as a floating point number it caused a crash, and as an integer or a character string it was very recognizable in a dump. Sadly, one day a very senior professor at Nottingham University wrote a program that called him a fool. He proceeded to demonstrate the correctness of this assertion by lobbying the university (not quite successfully) to forbid the use of Algol on its computers. See also DEADBEEF.
FOOL, () Fool's Lisp. A small Scheme interpreter. (1994-10-04)
FOOL, (n.) A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent. He it was who invented letters, printing, the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, the platitude and the circle of the sciences. He created patriotism and taught the nations war -- founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine and Chicago. He established monarchical and republican government. He is from everlasting to everlasting -- such as creation's dawn beheld he fooleth now. In the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills, and in the noonday of existence headed the procession of being. His grandmotherly hand was warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization, and in the twilight he prepares Man's evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit up to write a history of human civilization.
Foolahs (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) Same as Fulahs.
Fulahs, Foolahs, Fulani, (n.) (pl.; sing. Fulah, Foolah.) (Ethnol.) A peculiar African race of uncertain origin, but distinct from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze.
They are Mohammedans. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah and Fulani are also used adjectively; as, Fulah or Fulani empire, tribes, language.
Fool-born (a.) Begotten by a fool. -- Shak.
Fooleries (n. pl. ) of Foolery.
Foolery (n.) The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity.
Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote. -- Shak.
Foolery (n.) An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical.
That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these fooleries, it can not be suspected. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Foolfish (n.) (Zool.) The orange filefish. See Filefish.
Foolfish (n.) (Zool.) The winter flounder. See Flounder.
Fool-happy (a.) Lucky, without judgment or contrivance. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Foolhardihood (n.) The state of being foolhardy; foolhardiness.
Foolhardily (adv.) In a foolhardy manner.
Foolhardiness (n.) Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness. -- Dryden.
Foolhardiness (n.) The trait of giving little thought to danger [syn: recklessness, foolhardiness, rashness].
Foolhardise (n.) Foolhardiness. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Foolhardy (a.) 有勇無謀的 Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. -- Howell.
Syn: Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
Foolhardy (a.) Marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences; "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest" [syn: {foolhardy}, {heady}, {rash}, {reckless}].
Fool-hasty (a.) Foolishly hasty. [R.]
Foolify (v. t.) To make a fool of; to befool. [R.] -- Holland.
Foolish (a.) Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.
I am a very foolish fond old man. -- Shak.
Foolish (a.) Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act.
Foolish (a.) Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.
A foolish figure he must make. -- Prior.
Syn: Absurd; shallow; shallow-brained; brainless; simple; irrational; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; incautious; silly; ridiculous; vain; trifling; contemptible. See Absurd.
Foolish (a.) Devoid of good sense or judgment; "foolish remarks"; "a foolish decision" [ant: wise].
Foolish (a.) Having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books" [syn: anserine, dopy, dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike, jerky].
Foolishly (adv.) In a foolish manner.
Foolishly (a.) Without good sense or judgment; "He acted foolishly when he agreed to come" [syn: foolishly, unwisely] [ant: sagely, wisely].
Foolishness (n.) The quality of being foolish.
Foolishness (n.) A foolish practice; an absurdity.
The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. -- 1 Cor. i. 18.
Foolishness (n.) The trait of acting stupidly or rashly [syn: folly, foolishness, unwiseness] [ant: wisdom, wiseness].
Foolishness (n.) The quality of being rash and foolish; "trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness" [syn: folly, foolishness, craziness, madness].
Foolishness (n.) A stupid mistake [syn: stupidity, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility].
Fool-large (a.) Foolishly liberal. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Fool-largesse (n.) Foolish expenditure; waste. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Foolscap (n.) A writing paper made in sheets, ordinarily 16 x 13 inches, and folded so as to make a page 13 x 8 inches. See Paper.
Foolscap (n.) A size of paper used especially in Britain.
Feet (n. pl. ) of Foot
Foot (n.) (Anat.) 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 (n.) (Zool.) 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.) 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 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 ; the foot of the page.
And now at foot Of heaven's ascent they lift their feet. -- Milton.
Foot (n.) Fundamental principle; basis; plan; -- used only in the singular.
Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason. -- Berkeley.
Foot (n.) Recognized condition; rank; footing; -- used only in the singular. [R.]
As to his being on the foot of a servant. -- Walpole.
Foot (n.) A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.
Note: This measure is supposed to be taken from the length of a
man's foot. It differs in length in different countries. In the United States
and in England it is 304.8 millimeters.
Foot (n.)
(Mil.) Soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry, usually designated
as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry. "Both horse and foot."
-- Milton.
Foot (n.) (Pros.) 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.) (Naut.) The lower
edge of a sail.
Note: Foot is often used adjectively, signifying of or pertaining to a foot or
the feet, or to the base or lower part. It is also much used as the first of
compounds.
Foot artillery. (Mil.) (a) Artillery soldiers serving in foot.
Foot artillery. (Mil.) (b) Heavy artillery. -- Farrow.
Foot bank (Fort.), A raised way within a parapet.
Foot barracks (Mil.), Barracks for infantery.
Foot bellows, A bellows worked by a treadle. -- Knight.
Foot company (Mil.), A company of infantry. -- Milton.
Foot gear, Covering for the feet, as stocking, shoes, or boots.
Foot hammer (Mach.), A small tilt hammer moved by a treadle.
Foot iron. (a) The step of a carriage.
Foot iron. (b) A fetter.
Foot jaw. (Zool.) See Maxilliped.
Foot key (Mus.), An organ pedal.
Foot level (Gunnery), A form of level used in giving any proposed angle of elevation to a piece of ordnance. -- Farrow.
Foot mantle, A long garment to protect the dress in riding; a riding skirt. [Obs.]
Foot page, An errand boy; an attendant. [Obs.]
Foot passenger, One who passes on foot, as over a road or bridge.
Foot pavement, A paved way for foot passengers; a footway; a trottoir.
Foot poet, An inferior poet; a poetaster. [R.] -- Dryden.
Foot post. (a) A letter carrier who travels on foot.
Foot post. (b) A mail delivery by means of such carriers.
Fot pound, & Foot poundal. (Mech.) See Foot pound and Foot poundal, In the Vocabulary.
Foot press (Mach.), A cutting, embossing, or printing press, moved by a treadle.
Foot race, A race run by persons on foot. -- Cowper.
Foot rail, A railroad rail, with a wide flat flange on the lower side.
Foot rot, An ulcer in the feet of sheep; claw sickness.
Foot rule, A rule or measure twelve inches long.
Foot screw, An adjusting screw which forms a foot, and serves to give a machine or table a level standing on an uneven place.
Foot secretion. (Zool.) See Sclerobase.
Foot soldier, A soldier who serves on foot.
Foot stick (Printing), A beveled piece of furniture placed against the foot of the page, to hold the type in place.
Foot stove, A small box, with an iron pan, to hold hot coals for warming the feet.
Foot tubercle. (Zool.) See Parapodium.
Foot valve (Steam Engine), The valve that opens to the air pump from the condenser.
Foot vise, A kind of vise the jaws of which are operated by a treadle.
Foot waling (Naut.), The inside planks or lining of a vessel over the floor timbers. -- Totten.
Foot wall (Mining), The under wall of an inclosed vein.
By foot, or On foot, By walking; as, to pass a stream on foot.
Cubic foot. See under Cubic.
Foot and mouth disease, A contagious disease (Eczema epizo["o]tica) of cattle, sheep, swine, etc., characterized by the formation of vesicles and ulcers in the mouth and about the hoofs.
Foot of the fine (Law), The concluding portion of an acknowledgment in court by which, formerly, the title of land was conveyed. See Fine of land, under Fine, n.; also Chirograph. (b).
Square foot. See under Square.
To be on foot, To be in motion, action, or process of execution.
To keep the foot (Script.), To preserve decorum. "Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God." -- Eccl. v. 1.
To put one's foot down, To take a resolute stand; to be determined. [Colloq.]
To put the best foot foremost, To make a good appearance; to do one's best. [Colloq.]
To set on foot, To put in motion; To originate; as, to set on foot a subscription.
To put one on his feet, or set one on his feet, To put one in a position to go on; to assist to start.
Under foot. Under the feet; (Fig.) At one's mercy; as, to trample under foot. -- Gibbon.
Under foot. Below par. [Obs.] "They would be forced to sell . . . far under foot." -- Bacon.
Feet (n. pl.) See Foot.
Feet (n.) [See Feat, n.] Fact; performance. [Obs.]
Footed (imp. & p. p.) of Foot
Footing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foot
Foot (v. i.) To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip. -- Dryden.
Foot (v. i.) To walk; -- opposed to ride or fly. -- Shak.
Foot (v. t.) To kick with the foot; to spurn. -- Shak.
Foot (v. t.) To set on foot; to establish; to land. [Obs.]
What confederacy have you with the traitors Late footed in the kingdom? -- Shak.
Foot (v. t.) To tread; as, to foot the green. -- Tickell.
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 size or strike with the talon. [Poet.] -- Shak.
Foot (v. t.) To renew the foot of, as of stocking. -- Shak.
To foot a bill, To pay it. [Colloq.] -- To foot it, to walk; also, to dance.
If you are for a merry jaunt, I'll try, for once, who can foot it farthest. -- Dryden.
Foot (n.) The part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint; "his bare feet projected from his trousers"; "armored from head to foot" [syn: foot, human foot, pes].
Foot (n.) A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard; "he is six feet tall" [syn: foot, ft].
Foot (n.) The lower part of anything; "curled up on the foot of the bed"; "the foot of the page"; "the foot of the list"; "the foot of the mountain" [ant: head].
Foot (n.) The pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings [syn: animal foot, foot].
Foot (n.) Lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" [syn: foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure].
Foot (n.) Any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates [syn: foot, invertebrate foot].
Foot (n.) Travel by walking; "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of foot".
Foot (n.) A member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger.
Foot (n.) An army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot; "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot" [syn: infantry, foot].
Foot (n.) (Prosody) A group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm [syn: metrical foot, foot, metrical unit].
Foot (n.) A support resembling a pedal extremity; "one foot of the chair was on the carpet".
Foot (v.) Pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill" [syn: foot, pick].
Foot (v.) Walk; "let's hoof it to the disco" [syn: foot, leg it, hoof, hoof it].
Foot (v.) Add a column of numbers [syn: foot, foot up].
FOOT, () Forum for Object Oriented Technology (CERN, OOP)
Foot, () A measure of length, containing one-third of a yard, or twelve inches. See Ell. Figuratively, it signifies the conclusion, the end; as, the foot of the fine, the foot of the account.
Football (n.) An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather. -- Waller.
Note: The American football is an oblate spheroid, with pointed ends. In other countries, the football is the same as a soccer ball. The games played with the two different balls are different. In the United States, the game played with a soccer ball is called soccer.
Football (n.) The game played with a football [1], by two opposing teams of players moving the ball between goals at opposite ends of a rectangular playing field. Outside the United States football refers to soccer, and in England, also to rugby, but in the United States the shape of the ball and the rules of the game are different. -- Arbuthnot.
Football (n.) Soccer or rugby. [Brit.]
Football (n.) [Fig.] Something which is treated in a rough manner, usually as part of a dispute; as, a political football.
Football (n.) Any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal [syn: football, football game].
Football (n.) The inflated oblong ball used in playing American football.
Footband (n.) A band of foot soldiers. [Obs.]
Footbath (n.) A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.
Footbath (n.) A small bathtub for warming or washing or disinfecting the feet.
Footboard (n.) A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet; as:
Footboard (n.) The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive.
Footboard (n.) The foot-rest of a coachman's box.
Footboard (n.) A board forming the foot of a bedstead.
Footboard (n.) A treadle.
Footboard (n.) A narrow platform on which to stand or brace the feet.
Footboard (n.) A vertical board or panel forming the foot of a bedstead.
Footboy (n.) A page; an attendant in livery; a lackey. -- Shak.
Footbreadth (n.) The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure. -- Longfellow.
Not so much as a footbreadth. -- Deut. ii. 5.
Footbridge (n.) A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
Footbridge (n.) A bridge designed for pedestrians [syn: footbridge, overcrossing, pedestrian bridge].
Footcloth (n.) Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse. -- Sir W. Scott.
Footed (a.) Having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot ; as, a footed candlestick. "Footed like a goat." -- Grew.
Note: Footed is often used in composition in the sense of having (such or so many) feet; as, fourfooted beasts.
Footed (a.) Having a foothold; established.
Our king . . . is footed in this land already. -- Shak.
Footed (a.) Having feet; "footed creatures"; "a footed sofa" [ant: footless].
Footfall (n.) A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep. -- Shak.
Seraphim, whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. -- Poe.
Footfall (n.) The sound of a step of someone walking; "he heard footsteps on the porch" [syn: footfall, footstep, step].
Footfight (n.) A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Footglove (n.) A kind of stocking. [Obs.]
Foot Guards (n. pl.) Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards. [Eng.]
Foothalt (n.) A disease affecting the feet of sheep.
Foothill (n.) A low hill at the foot of higher hills or mountains.
Foothill (n.) A relatively low hill on the lower slope of a mountain.
Foothold (n.) A holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one may tread or rest securely; footing. -- L'Estrange.
Foothold (n.) An area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies; "an attempt to secure a bridgehead behind enemy lines"; "the only foothold left for British troops in Europe was Gibraltar" [syn: bridgehead, foothold].
Foothold (n.) A place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing [syn: foothold, footing].
Foothold (n.) An initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments; "the town became a beachhead in the campaign to ban smoking outdoors"; "they are presently attempting to gain a foothold in the Russian market" [syn: beachhead, foothold].
Foothook (n.) (Naut.) See Futtock.
Foothot (adv.) Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfloot. -- Gower.
Custance have they taken anon, foothot. -- Chaucer.
Footing (n.) Ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
In ascent, every step gained is a footing and help to the next. -- Holder.
Footing (n.) Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
As soon as he had obtained a footing at court, the charms of his manner . . . made him a favorite. -- Macaulay.
Footing (n.) Relative condition; state.
Lived on a footing of equality with nobles. -- Macaulay.
Footing (n.) Tread; step; especially, measured tread.
Hark, I hear the footing of a man. -- Shak.
Footing (n.) The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
Footing (n.) The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.
Footing (n.) A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
Footing (n.) The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil. -- Simmonds.
Footing (n.) (Arch. & Enging.) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot.
Footing course (Arch.), One of the courses of masonry at the foot of a wall, broader than the courses above.
To pay one's footing, To pay a fee on first doing anything, as working at a trade or in a shop. -- Wright.
Footing beam, The tie beam of a roof.
Footing (n.) Status with respect to the relations between people or groups; "on good terms with her in-laws"; "on a friendly footing" [syn: footing, terms].
Footing (n.) A relation that provides the foundation for something; "they were on a friendly footing"; "he worked on an interim basis" [syn: footing, basis, ground].
Footing (n.) A place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing [syn: foothold, footing].
Footless (a.) Having no feet.
Footless (a.) Having no feet or analogous appendages [ant: footed].
Footlicker (n.) A sycophant; a fawner; a toady. Cf. Bootlick. -- Shak.
Footlight (n.) One of a row of lights in the front of the stage in a theater, etc., and on a level therewith.
Before the footlights, Upon the stage; -- hence, in the capacity of an actor.
Footmen (n. pl. ) of Footman.
Footman (n.) A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.
Footman (n.) A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.
Footman (n.) Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a runner. -- Prior.
Footman (n.) A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.
Footman (n.) (Zool.) A moth of the family Lithosidae; -- so called from its livery-like colors.
Footman (n.) A man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores.
Footmanship (n.) Art or skill of a footman.
Footmark (n.) A footprint; a track or vestige. -- Coleridge.
Footmark (n.) A mark of a foot or shoe on a surface; "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window" [syn: footprint, footmark, step].
Footnote (n.) A note of reference or comment at the foot of a page.
Footnote (n.) A printed note placed below the text on a printed page [syn: footnote, footer].
Footnote (v.) Add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments; "The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel" [syn: annotate, footnote].
Footpace (n.) A walking pace or step.