sb. and a. [ad. L. biped-em, f. bi- two + pedem (nom. pēs) foot; cf. F. bipède.]
A. sb. A two-footed animal.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. iv. 114. Neither biped nor quadruped oviparous have any [stones] exteriorly.
1699. Tyson, Orang-Out., 91. Our Pygmie is … tho’ a Biped, yet of the Quadrumanus-kind.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 39. Those fastidious bipeds, men and women.
B. adj. Having two feet; two-footed.
1793. Southey, Nondesc., i. Wks. III. 59. His drivers goad the biped beast.
1849–52. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., IV. 1297/1. The purely biped progression of Man.
