paw 
paw (pô)
noun
- the foot of a four-footed animal having claws
- Informal a hand
Etymology: ME paue < OFr poue < Frank *pauta, a paw (< pre-Celt *pauta) > Ger pfote
transitive verb, intransitive verb
- to touch, dig, hit, strike out (at), etc. with the paws or feet a horse pawing the air
- to handle clumsily or roughly she pawed angrily through the papers on her desk
- to caress in too familiar a way
paw (pô)
noun
Dialectal pa; papa; father
paw
v.
Converse of object
- outstretch: The next ball is tipped off outside edge but drops inches short of Strauss's outstretched paws.
- shake: I can shake a paw, roll over, lie down, sit and stay and leave.
Adjective modifier
- six-toed: The lid of the basket tilted a little, between lid and rim a soft, furry, six-toed gray paw was thrust out.
- grubby: Disgusting - I bet your copy of YS was embarrassed to be grasped in your grubby paws in full view of a coach party!
- furry: I personally think that the cats will most likely be laughing into their furry paws.
- muddy: Batty Hughes - Batty Two is the new basset puppy and is quite adorable She will jump up and usually has very muddy paws.
- injured: Meg bailed out early feigning an injured paw which left the rest of us to head on.
- dirty: Now I have got dirty paws Toby is getting bigger than the girls now.
Modifies a noun
- filestore: Use this service to access your PAWS filestore from anywhere on the Internet using a web browser.
- pad: Nose leather, eye rims & paw pads pink.
- print: You have left paw prints on our hearts forever.
- PC: Why do some PAWS PCs not have floppy drives?
Noun used with modifier
- cat: Other interesting construction details include a line of cat paw prints on Petal Number 3, hidden beneath the solar cells.
- dog: What's with the dog paw print on the site?
- front: He also has a very impressive front paw, which can bowl the ball along at quite a rate of knots.
Possessives
- lion: The final ascent begins between giant lion's paws carved in the rock.
- monkey: A strange monkey's paw grants John White, ( Lawson ), three wishes.
- cat: H ave you heard the phrase a cat's paw?
- dog: Pressure across a dog's paw during stance phase.
Preposition: in
- air: Anthea was sleeping on her back, paws in the air.
Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.
Theyare sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs 578 Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
David said moreover,The L that delivered me out of thepawofthelion, and out ofthepawofthebear, hewill deliver me outofthehand ofthis Philistine. And Saulsaid unto David,Go, and the L be with thee.
He isjoyful with swift movement when a mouse sticks in his sharp paw. I too am joyful when I understand a dearly loved difficult problem.
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