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Uniped. World English Historical Dictionary

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Uniped. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1926, rev. 2022. Uniped sb. and a. Also -pede. [f. UNI- + L. ped-, pēs foot.]

1   A.  sb. A person having only one foot (or leg); a one-footed creature.

2 1801.  Southey, Thalaba, IV. 218, note. There is said to be a nation of one legged men, and one of these unipeds is represented in a print, lying on his back, under the shade of his own great foot.

3 1846.  Blackw. Mag., LX. 227. To wake up ten minutes afterwards an unsuffering uniped.

4 1863.  C. M. Smith, Dead Lock, 248. In all diseases of the toes … the liabilities of the uniped are but as five to ten compared with those of his two-legged brethren.

5   fig.  1897.  Contemp. Rev., Oct., 536. The greater sort will escape one-sidedness by inventing some outlet for themselves, but the average will present us with an endless variety of quaint queer unipeds.

6   B.  adj. Having only one foot (or leg); one-footed.

7 1835.  Kirby, Hab. & Inst. Anim., II. 125. [These] Molluscans … are the only instance of a unipede structure in creation.

8 1866.  R. Chambers, Ess., Ser. II. 206. An auctioneer … who … sells off pots and pans, and small uniped tables.

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