Adjective : footless dreams of glory. From Dictionary.com.
Maggot: applied to the footless larvae of Diptera. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
All this, he reminded himself, was footless speculation. From Wordnik.com. [Project Pope]
She created footless pantyhose way before the fashion designers. From Wordnik.com. [Beverly Wettenstein: Ode to Mother Sylvia -- Owed to Mother Sylvia] Reference
Only answering with a shrug, the man filled the footless glass, and. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
Blakely later researched and wrote a patent for footless pantyhose. From Wordnik.com. [Renee and Don Martin: Finding Inspiration for Invention in Life's Major Annoyances] Reference
These days I wear footless tights, and cover the ankle gap with socks. From Wordnik.com. [Not the most embarrassing underpant story after all, I guess*] Reference
But not enough to identify the poor souls who are now footless or dead. From Wordnik.com. [Another Severed Foot Washes Ashore in BC : Law is Cool] Reference
Old Ones, said the One within the forest, this is footless speculation. From Wordnik.com. [Project Pope]
"What duties have I?" said Ray, hoarsely, looking along his footless limb. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
Interest in low-rise footless pantyhose is more limited, Ms. Blakely says. From Wordnik.com. [A Dated Industry Gets a Modern Makeover] Reference
But time and again, she was told footless panty hose was simply a bad idea. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Wilson: Three Steps to Gain a Competitive Advantage] Reference
A big no-no: hosiery with your mules, unless the hose are the footless kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Style Checklist] Reference
‘And you,’ he added, turning to his daughter, as he filled the footless glass. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
And Dani, here in Toulouse there is a rather tragic footless tights thing going on. From Wordnik.com. [This one time I was trying to buy melon and he told me I had no sense of smell] Reference
Blakely first came up with her product idea -- a footless-pantyhose body shaper -- in 1998. From Wordnik.com. [Women Entrepreneurs: Close The Gender Gap And Dream Big] Reference
Your vast knowledge of the facts being disclosed by your footless "close advisor" allegation. From Wordnik.com. [Obama On Wright: "I Might Not Know Him As Well As I Thought"] Reference
Fish are footless, and the limbs they have get their name (pterugion) from their similarity to wings. From Wordnik.com. [On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing] Reference
With a little hard work and a lot of time, a headless, footless and handless body soon stood in my apartment. From Wordnik.com. [The Scary Reality of a Real-Life Barbie Doll] Reference
And I admit, the footless ones are making me very happy under summer weight trousers, with kicky little flats. From Wordnik.com. [Back For the Fall] Reference
It is a footless thing to spend valuable time in idle gossip, for the gossip is seldom a successful business man. From Wordnik.com. [Dollars and Sense] Reference
Animals which have the superior and the front parts identically situated are four-footed, many-footed, or footless. From Wordnik.com. [On the Gait of Animals] Reference
Armed with the one product Blakely she went on to found a Spanx, a company that sells footless and footed hosiery. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2007] Reference
But all with gills produce refrigeration by taking in water; the Selachia and all other footless animals have gills. From Wordnik.com. [On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing] Reference
For example, you might first divide animals into wild and tame, and then divide the tame animals into footed and footless. From Wordnik.com. [Aristotle's Biology] Reference
The initiated know what it means, but I doubt if any one else would recognize the significance of the headless and footless box!. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
Sara Blakely started creating the products, which include footless pantyhose, because of her own frustration over the fit of clothes. From Wordnik.com. [A Dated Industry Gets a Modern Makeover] Reference
High in the sunlit silence, hov'ring there I've chased the shouting wind along, And flung my eager craft through footless halls of air. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetry Of Flight] Reference
Quadrupeds, polypods, and footless animals again have their superior part corresponding to the intermediate, because they are not erect. From Wordnik.com. [On the Gait of Animals] Reference
Next, why are man and bird bipeds, but fish footless; and why do man and bird, though both bipeds, have an opposite curvature of the legs. From Wordnik.com. [On the Gait of Animals] Reference
As with the tunic dress, hemlines on footless tights vary. From Wordnik.com. [BlogHer - Comments] Reference
I have the answer: a tunic dress and a pair of footless tights. From Wordnik.com. [BlogHer - Comments] Reference
A tunic dress with footless tights is a casual look; keep your shoes casual, too. From Wordnik.com. [BlogHer - Comments] Reference
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