pes

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Get these ready to go before your start making your crêpes, as they are best eaten rolled up with your fingers, warm from the pan, spread with your filling of choice.

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  1. noun A foot or footlike part, especially the foot of a four-footed vertebrate.

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  • • Flip Happy Crêpes, a trailer at 401 Jessie St. 552-9034, www. fliphappycrepes.com. —  Austin360 - XL Headlines
  • Get these ready to go before your start making your crêpes, as they are best eaten rolled up with your fingers, warm from the pan, spread with your filling of choice. —  Sugar Savvy
  • T1 to scale with A: first resting traces (manus, pes, and ischial callosity) in red, second (shuffling, pes only) traces in gold, final resting traces (pes and ischial callosity) in green, and tail drag marks made as track maker moved off in blue. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • The "plätt" is just as thin as the pancake ..., think crêpes, then you've got the right thickness ... —  MightyRighty.com - Conservative News, Discussion and Community
  • In course of time the foot becomes inverted and the toes are pointed--pes equino-varus--and trophic sores are liable to form The Tibial (internal popliteal) nerve# is rarely injured The Cranial nerves# are considered with affections of the head and neck (Vol. II NEURALGIA The term neuralgia is applied clinically to any pain which follows the course of a nerve, and is not referable to any discoverable cause. —  Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.
 

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  1. Latin pēs; see ped- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, = English foot: see foot.
 

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