Definition of Forepaws

1. Noun. (plural of forepaw) ¹

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Definition of Forepaws

1. forepaw [n] - See also: forepaw

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forepaws

foreordain
foreordained
foreordaining
foreordains
foreordinate
foreordinated
foreordinates
foreordinating
foreordination
foreordinations
forepart
foreparts
forepast
forepaw
forepaws (current term)
forepeak
forepeaks
forepeople
foreperson
forepersons
foreplan
foreplane
foreplanes
foreplans
foreplays
forepossessed
foreprize

Literary usage of Forepaws

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Animal Friends: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1894)
"... his head on one side and a great wonder growing in his eyes, then he rose, put his forepaws across my knees, laid his dear head close on my breast, ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"These it eats, either sitting on its haunches or suspended by ite hind feet, and holding them between its forepaws like • squirrel. ..."

3. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"So the kangaroo broke off a piece of each of his forepaws and threw the pieces away, ... I still have long forepaws, but you have only short ones. ..."

4. Oceanic [mythology] by Roland Burrage Dixon (1916)
"So the kangaroo broke off a piece of each of his forepaws and threw the pieces away, ... I still have long forepaws, but you have only short ones. ..."

5. The Medical Times and Gazette (1867)
"The rabbit in a quarter of an hour began to lick its forepaws, as though there ... After three-quarters of an hour it was seen again to lick its forepaws, ..."

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