Capriped
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Capriped is an adjective meaning Having or relating to feet like those of a goat.
Meaning
Having or relating to feet like those of a goat.
More Meanings
- (mythology) A goat-footed person; a satyr.
Example Sentences
[…] so deep in the confidence of nature in general that they seem to belong to the forest, and to be fellows with its denizens, like the capriped satyrs […]
And into the hall twirled six capripeds, footing it lightly as the music swept ever faster, and a one-footer that leaped hither and thither about and about, as the flea hoppeth, till the Witches grew hoarse with singing and shouting and hounding of him on.
Word Forms
- capripeds
- capripede
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include caprigenous, goatly, goatlike, goaty, goatish, pedate.
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