a. Having two feet; biped; two-legged; standing on two feet.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., V. pr. iv. 128 (Camb. MS.). Man is a resonable two foted beest.
1495. Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., V. liv. (W. de W.), 171. The fete of fowles and of two foted beestes.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 305. The Mice and Rats of Ægypt … walke like as if they were two-footed.
1607. [see BIPEDAL a. 2].
a. 1661. Holyday, Juvenal, ix. 170. He neglects me, and now seeks some other Two-footed sturdy asse.
1802. Shaw, Gen. Zool., III. 311. Two-footed cylindric Lizard.
1839. Carlyle, Chartism, iv. 125. There is not a horse willing to work but can get food…; a thing this two-footed worker has to seek for.
1864. Tennyson, Aylmer’s F., 127. He [the dog] rose Twofooted at the limit of his chain.
b. transf. Performed by the two feet.
1898. R. F. Horton, Commandm. Jesus, i. 7. The third step in the two-footed progress.
