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To foot a bill

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Foot \Foot\, v. t.
   1. To kick with the foot; to spurn. --Shak.

   2. To set on foot; to establish; to land. [Obs.]

            What confederacy have you with the traitors Late
            footed in the kingdom?                --Shak.

   3. To tread; as, to foot the green. --Tickell.

   4. To sum up, as the numbers in a column; -- sometimes with
      up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account.

   5. The size or strike with the talon. [Poet.] --Shak.

   6. To renew the foot of, as of stocking. --Shak.

   {To foot a bill}, to pay it. [Colloq.] -- {To foot it}, to
      walk; also, to dance.
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