cat's-foot

noun

1. Also called: mountain everlasting. a European plant, Antennaria dioica, with whitish woolly leaves and heads of typically white flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)

Example Sentences

Cat's-foot.—To live under the cat's foot, to be under the dominion of a wife, hen-pecked.

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Cat's-foot.—A plant of the genus Glechoma pes felinus, ground ivy or gill.

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But–but it’s a cat’s-foot climb down–there!” breaking off breathlessly, as if feeling were making a cat’s-paw of him.

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"This," wrote Forbes, on hearing of the proposal, "is a new system of military discipline truly, and shows that my good friend Burd is either made a cat's-foot of himself, or little knows me if he imagines that sixty scoundrels are to direct me in my measures."

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