cat's-foot

English edit

From cat's +‎ foot. For its obsolete figurative sense, see cat's-paw.

Synonym of cat's-paw: a foot of a cat; (figurative, obsolete) a person used unwittingly or through trickery by another.
- c. 1661, Argyle's Last Will in The Harleian Miscellany, Vol. VIII, p. 30:
  ...like the Monkey, that took the Cat's Foot to pull the Chesnut out of the Fire...
Synonym of ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea).
- 1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Ground Iuie, or Alefoot”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book II, page 705:
  It is commonly called […] in English ground Iuie, Alehoofe, Gill creepe by ground, Tunehoofe, and Cats foote.
Synonym of mountain cudweed (Antennaria dioica).
- 1739, Henri François Le Dran, translated by John Sparrow, Observations in Surgery, page 119:
  ...an Infusion made with the Heads of White Poppies, Cat's-foot, Colt's-foot, and Maiden-hair.

"cat's-foot, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.