When the shoe of the hind foot strikes and injures the heel or quarter of the forefoot the horse is said to overreach.
That part of the skeleton of the hand orforefoot between the carpus and phalanges.
The act of turning the palm or palmar surface of the forefoot downward.
To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
Our forefoot is gone, and we are stove through forward.
She had on a blue gingham apron over a short skirt of gray, and a very tight-fitting shirt-waist, which was stretched almost to the bursting-point as she raised her right forefoot to shade her eyes.
I know, because one time when my right forefoot was hurt they put me out in the meadow and many a good drink I've had from that same little brook.
Hold up your near forefoot and I'll impress the fact upon it, warty toad of a dried mud-puddle.
The sea was like smoky oil, except where it turned to fire under our forefoot and whirled back into the dark in smears of dull flame.
The frog supported the heels of the headboard and also the forefoot of the stem-piece, which otherwise would have but partial support from the sewing battens outside the ends at these points.
This pattern was carried down from the stem-head to about the level of the midship sheer height; from there down around the forefoot the lashing consisted of a simple spiral.
This makes the bottom sweep up from the forefoot in a very slight gradual curve to the stern, when the boat is afloat.
This example illustrates better than the Baffin Island kayak the combination of deep forefoot and the greatest beam well abaft the midlength that marks many eastern models.
In the straight-stem form, only the forefoot part was laminated, and no headboard was used.
There was the same sorrel horse with a white left forefoot and a white nose.
Neither could he remember having seen the horse, which was a sorrel with a white leftforefoot and a white nose.
The circumstantial evidence was quite as strong against him as against the man on the horse with the white left forefoot and the white nose.
And what business had he to wander over this very road at two o'clock in the morning, and to see three galloping horsemen, one of them on a horse with a white left forefoot and a white nose?
And then he remembered the sorrel horse with the left forefoot and muzzle white, and he recalled the sound he had heard as of the lifting of a latch.
The horse with the white forefoot and white nose galloped before his eyes again.
Ralph wondered whether he'd bet the one with the white left forefoot and the white nose.
Another twenty strokes and our craft's forefoot grounded on the beach.
Her forefoot swung out of the smooth swell, and a thin streak of foam marked her waterline; her high sails were black against the sunset.
Her mainsail was lowered and, with jib and mizzen set, she swung her forefoot out of the foam and sank until her rail was hidden.
Unaware of the tragedy, the lads urged the boat almost over the fatal spot, and five minutes later the cutter's forefoot grounded on the sandy beach.
Already the two outer poles of the cradle were passed, when a slight shock told the salvors that the yawl's forefoot had touched the cradle.
All the beauties of the main chain of the Pyrenees are here in this side-long spur just before it plunges its forefootinto the blue waters of the Mediterranean.
Her forefoot lifted almost clear of the water, while to the accompaniment of the hiss of escaping vapour from a fractured main steam-pipe, the "Antipas" buckled amidships.
The toes of the right hind foot are more extensively white than in normal specimens of noveboracensis, and all of the right forefoot as well as the wrist is white.
In each figure, left-forefoot on left, and left hind foot on right.
Once we tried to ram, but he turned as he submerged, and the forefoot cut into nothing more solid than his propeller swirl.
Their elder, impatient at the disgraceful conduct of her offspring turned and chided them with a stamp of her forefoot and a low grunt.
Sama, the tapir, one massive forefoot raised in midair, stopped soothing with his tongue the ugly gash inflicted by Ueshe, leader of the peccary herd when he had incautiously stumbled into its midst, and listened.
From a photograph provided by the American Museum of Natural History)] [Illustration: Forefoot of East Greenland Musk-ox.
We were sailing with a fair wind, our little sails drawing steadily and the forefoot casting spray before it in pearly showers.
The forefoot rose high, once or twice, with the lessened headway, and a great savage mass of rock passed alongside, stretching out jagged spurs, like some wild beast robbed of its prey.
The sails were quickly wrapped around the masts and our forefoot gently grated against the pebbles.
If the right forefoot touches the ground first, the left hind foot is placed next, then the left forefoot, and last the right hind foot.
Where the beaver is scarce and much pursued, the imprint of a forefoot near the water's edge may be discovered occasionally here and there; in this case the prominence of the toenails is unmistakable.
The hind foot track covers the one made by the forefoot of the same side.
The young bull often oversteps the forefoot track with the hind foot; therefore in case the tracks do not register it is necessary to examine the two individual tracks of one side.
I noted the gurglingforefoot was very like a snore, and as I listened to it the effect of Wolf Larsen's swift rush from sublime exultation to despair slowly left me.
Above, the sky is stainless blue--blue as the sea itself, which under the forefoot is of the colour and sheen of azure satin.
O the blazing tropic night, when the wake's a welt of light That holds the hot sky tame, And the steady forefoot snores through the planet-powdered floors Where the scared whale flukes in flame.
The forefoot or tongue of the glacier is covered by a thick veneer of rock detritus carried down by the flow of the ice and fallen from the cliffs of Popes peak on the west side, and Mt.
Since then the ice has receded very considerably and the forefoot shrunken greatly in size and spectacular appearances.
The dog, scenting trouble, bristled and snarled, baring his long fangs and standing with one forefoot raised.
One forefoot was raised a little, resting on the toe, and the muscles of his shoulders quivered under the glossy hide.
And in the very midst of it stood the outlaw in his familiar attitude, with one forefoot slightly raised, his head high, his nostrils distended, his dark eyes filled with fire.
Then the noose on his hind feet was cautiously removed, one forefoot was freed, and the horse was allowed to rise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forefoot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
