Word Finder - toe

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Each of the five digits on the end of the foot.

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An equivalent part in an animal.

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That part of a shoe or sock covering the toe.

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Something resembling a toe, especially at the bottom or extreme end of something.

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An advanced form of ballet primarily for the females, dancing ballet primarily using a Pointe shoe.

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An alignment of the wheels of a road vehicle with positive toe (or toe in) signifying that the wheels are closer together at the front than at the back and negative toe (or toe out) the opposite.

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The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.

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A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, such as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved.

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A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece.

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The long side of an angled cut.

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The upper end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead; as opposed to the heel (lower end).

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To furnish (a stocking, etc.) with a toe.

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To touch, tap or kick with the toes.

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To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to.

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to toe the mark

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To fasten (a piece) by driving a fastener at a near-45-degree angle through the side (of the piece) into the piece to which it is to be fastened.

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The framers toed the irregular pieces into the sill.

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To mishit a golf ball with the toe of the club.

Fred moved his toe around in the dirt.

He booted it with his toe while holding the rifle at its head.

Katie sipped her tea, hot from head to toe.

Tendon of the flexor hallucis longus muscle sending a strong vinculum to that of the flexor profundus muscle, the tendon of which goes to the third toe only.

The warrior looked her over from head to toe.

He scraped the toe of his boot across the floor.

Hunter returned with the cof­fee while he was still talking and pulled over a chair with his toe.

His quick glance took her in from head to toe.

This may be the only functional toe, or the second and fourth may be subequally developed on each side.

Rhegium, Croton, the whole toe of the boot, were conquered.

The Bas Prestige is made from 100% non-stretch, 15 denier nylon and has a reinforced heel and toe.

With a sandal toe, these 8 denier tights provide a flawless, yet natural look that can be worn with utter confidence.

Now I want you to imagine some time you banged your shin or ankle, or stubbed a toe.

Who wants to dip even a toe in waters approximately five degrees below freezing?

The lightly reinforced toe makes them durable while still allowing you to dance the night away in your favorite open toe shoes.

Most toe pieces also feature an anti-friction device, or AFD.

They pulled up in a van full of guys dressed in those white biological suits that cover you head to toe.

Cynthia held the door handle, looking ready to jump while Dean contorted around the shift stick, barely able to press the pedal with his toe.

Delicious chocolate eyes twinkled down at her as he pinched her toe.

There was no denying the pleasure in his amber eyes as he boldly surveyed her from head to toe.

Nearly allied is the jumping Antechinomys laniger, of East Central Australia, an elegant mouse-like creature, with large oval ears, elongated limbs, a long and tufted tail and no first hind toe.

Another peculiarity is a separation of the big toe from the rest, greater than is found in any other people, and sufficiently general and well marked to serve as an ethnographic test.

The manakins are nearly all birds of gay appearance, generally exhibiting rich tints of blue, crimson, scarlet, orange or yellow in combination with chestnut, deep black, black and white, or olive green; and among their most obvious characteristics are their short bill and feeble feet, of which the outer toe is united to the middle toe for a good part of its length.

The first front toe was rudimentary, having no phalanges, but the fifth was rather less aborted, although clawless; the other three carried enormous claws, protected by reflected sheaths.

The hind-foot is remarkable for the great backward projection of the calcaneum, and likewise for the peculiar shape of the astragalus; the middle toe alone carries a claw, this being of huge size, and ensheathed like those of the fore foot.

In the fore feet the three inner toes have large claws, while the two outer ones are rudimentary and clawless; in the hind-limbs the first toe is wanting, as in Megatherium, but the second and third are clawed.

In some of them the hind toe, which has already ceased to have any function in the lapwing, is wholly wanting.

The humerus has no supra-condylar foramen, and the forearm bones are distinct; and in most species the fore foot has five digits with the phalanges normally developed, the first toe being but rarely rudimentary or absent.

In porcupines and hares the tendons of the flexor digitorum longus and flexor hallucis longus are connected in the foot, while in the rats and squirrels they are separate, and the flexor digitorum longus is generally inserted into the metatarsal of the first toe.

The prairie-dogs, or prairie-marmots, Cynomys, are a North American group, in which the five-toed forefeet have the claw of the first as large as that of the fifth toe.

Fore-feet with the first toe rudimentary and bearing a flat nail.

Vandeleuria, ranging from India to Yunnan, has flat nails on the first and fifth toes of both feet, and a very long tail; while the Indo-Malay Chiropodomys has a flat nail on the first toe of both feet and a tufted tail.

In the true pacas, Coelogenys (or Agouti), the first front toe is small, and both the first and fifth digits of the hind-foot are much inferior in size to the other three.

The three remaining families of the Hystricoidea, of which one is African while the other two are chiefly South American, are very closely allied and often brigaded in a single family group. In the Capromyidae, which includes only the South American and West Indian hutias, the South American coypu and the African cane-rats, the tympanic bulla of the skull is hollow, the par-occipital process straight, the lachrymal small, and the cheekteeth rooted, with deep enamel-folds; the first front toe Leing occasionally absent.

The most obvious feature the Apteryges afford is the presence of a back toe, while the extremely aborted condition of the wings, the position of the nostrils - almost at the tip of the maxilla - and the absence of an after-shaft in the feathers, are characters nearly as manifest, and others not less determinative, though more recondite, will be found on examination.

There is no trace of a first toe, and the fifth metatarsal is represented by a small nodule.

On the fore-foot the two (second and fifth) outer toes are equally developed as in pigs, but on the hind-foot, although the inner (or second) is present, the outer or fifth toe is entirely wanting.

They possess stout limbs, with which they kick in front, and have the inner toe armed with a long powerful claw.

The soles are very thick, and are secured with straps; there is generally a loop for the big toe.

The singular fact requires to be noticed that in both these species the hind toe is generally deficient, but that examples of each are occasionally found in which this functionless member has not wholly disappeared.

The hindfeet have a very short nailless first toe; the second, third and fourth toes partially united by integument, of nearly equal length; the fifth distinct and rather shorter; these four are provided with long and curved nails.

They differ in certain respects, as in the proportion of the limbs, in the bony development of the eyebrow ridges, and in the opposable great toe, which fits the foot to be a climbing and grasping organ.

Man differs from them in the absence of a hairy coat; in the development of a large lobule to the external ear; in his fully erect attitude; in his flattened foot with the non-opposable great toe; in the straight limb-bones; in the wider pelvis; in the marked sigmoid flexure of his spine; in the perfection of the muscular movements of the arm; in the delicacy of hand; in the smallness of the canine teeth and other dental peculiarities; in the development of a chin; and in the small size of his jaws compared to the relatively great size of the cranium.

The middle toe is greatly elongated, and the hinder one but slightly developed, while the talons of all the toes are comparatively straight and blunt, and are thus of little use as organs of prehension.

The hind-foot is extremely long, narrow and (except in the musk-kangaroo) without the first toe.

Perhaps, however, the most interesting member of the whole group is the tiny musk-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus) of north-east Australia, which alone represents the sub-family Hypsiprymnodontinae, characterized by the presence of an opposable first toe on the hind-foot and the outward inclination of the penultimate upper premolar, as well by the small and feeble claws.

Huxley maintained that it has the characteristic structure of a foot with a very movable great toe.

In characters of such importance as the structure of the hand and foot, the lower apes diverge extremely from the gorilla; thus the thumb ceases to be opposable in the American monkeys, and in the marmosets is directed forwards, and armed with a curved claw like the other digits, the great toe in these latter being insignificant in proportion.

The toe of the famous statue of the apostle in St Peter's, Rome, shows marked wear caused by the kisses of pilgrims. In the Roman Church a distinction is made between Latvia, a worship due to God alone, and Dulia or Hyperdulia, the adoration paid to the Virgin, saints, martyrs, crucifixes, &c..

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