biped

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bipēs, bipedis. Alternatively analyzable as bi- + -ped.

1. An animal, being, or construction that goes about on two feet (or two legs).

   “This knave, […] shoes horses better than e'er a man betwixt us and Iceland; and so he gives up his practice on the bipeds, the two-legged and unfledged species, called mankind, and betakes him entirely to shoeing of horses.”

   “He was badgered in that witness-box for an hour. By a distracting repetition of cross-examination he was forced to confess that he had seen and spoken to a human biped in broad daylight, yet could not recollect one singularity to distinguish this phantom from the flat mass of humanity.”