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  A.  adj. = SWIFT-FOOTED.

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1594.  Kyd, Cornelia, III. ii. 4. The Scithian swift-foote feareles Porters.

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1598.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. ii. III. Colonies, 792. The swift-foot Tiger or fierce Lionesse.

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c. 1611.  Chapman, Iliad, XXIV. 151. Go, swift foot Iris.

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1635.  Quarles, Embl., IV. iii. 25. The streames of swift-foot Rhene.

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1875.  Morris, Æneid, IV. 180. Swift are her wings to cleave the air, swift-foot she treads the earth.

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  B.  sb. A swift-footed person or animal, a fast runner; spec. = COURSER3.

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1825.  Selby, Illustr. Brit. Ornith., I. 334. Cream-coloured Swiftfoot. Cursorius Isabellinus.

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1869.  Ruskin, Q. of Air, i. § 20. The two Harpies, ‘Stormswift’ and ‘Swiftfoot,’ are the sisters of the rainbow.

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1887.  Morris, Odyss., XII. 539. The spirit of the Swiftfoot, the glorious Æacus’ seed.

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