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   web-footed
         adj 1: having feet with webbed toes [syn: {web-footed}, {web-
                  toed}]

English Dictionary: wiped out(p) by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
web-toed
adj
  1. having feet with webbed toes [syn: web-footed, {web- toed}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
web-toed salamander
n
  1. any of several salamanders with webbed toes and very long extensile tongues; excellent climbers that move with ease over smooth rock surfaces
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wiped out
adj
  1. destroyed completely [syn: annihilated, exterminated, wiped out(p)]
  2. destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"
    Synonym(s): broken, wiped out(p), impoverished
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Waft \Waft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wafted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Wafting}.] [Prob. originally imp. & p. p. of wave, v. t. See
      {Wave} to waver.]
      1. To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand
            to; to beckon. [Obs.]
  
                     But soft: who wafts us yonder?            --Shak.
  
      2. To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse
            of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant
            medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.
  
                     A gentle wafting to immortal life.      --Milton.
  
                     Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And
                     waft a sigh from Indus to the pole.   --Pope.
  
      3. To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy. [Obs.]
            --Sir T. Browne.
  
      Note: This verb is regular; but waft was formerly som[?]times
               used, as by Shakespeare, instead of wafted.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Web-footed \Web"-foot`ed\, a.
      Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a
      web-footed fowl.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Web-toed \Web"-toed`\, a.
      Having the toes united by a web for a considerable part of
      their length.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   wave a dead chicken v.   To perform a ritual in the direction of
   crashed software or hardware that one believes to be futile but is
   nevertheless necessary so that others are satisfied that an
   appropriate degree of effort has been expended.   "I'll wave a dead
   chicken over the source code, but I really think we've run into an
   OS bug."   Compare {voodoo programming}, {rain dance}; see also
   {casting the runes}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   wave a dead chicken
  
      To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed
      software or hardware that one believes to be futile but is
      nevertheless necessary so that others are satisfied that an
      appropriate degree of effort has been expended.   "I'll wave a
      dead chicken over the source code, but I really think we've
      run into an OS bug".
  
      Compare {voodoo programming}, {rain dance}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1996-09-08)
  
  
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