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Webster 1913 Edition
Swiftfoot
Swift′footˊ
,Adj.
Nimble; fleet.
Mir. for Mag.
Swift′footˊ
,Noun.
(Zool.)
The courser.
Definition 2024
swiftfoot
swiftfoot
English
Noun
swiftfoot
- A bird, the courser.
- Sir William Jardine
- The Courser or Swiftfoot […] are Little Bustard Plovers, intermediate in many respects, and showing a beautiful gradation of form.
- Sir William Jardine
Adjective
swiftfoot (comparative more swiftfoot, superlative most swiftfoot)
- (obsolete) nimble; fleet
- (Can we find and add a quotation of The Mirror for Magistrates to this entry?)