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I. having three feet, three-footed: mensa, Hor. S. 1, 3, 13: grabatus, Mart. 12, 32, 11: mulus natus, Liv. 40, 2, 4; 40, 45, 4.—Trop., of a man leaning on a staff, Maxim. 1, 219, de sene.