Bible Dictionaries
Tarsus

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints.

(2):

(n.) A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; - called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate.

(3):

(n.) The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tarsus'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/tarsus.html. 1828.