Part 4443

<h1>Foin</h1> <Xpage=578>

<hw>Foin</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A pass in fencing; a lunge.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Foinery</h1> <Xpage=578>

<hw>Foin"er*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Marston.</i>

<h1>Foiningly</h1> <Xpage=578>

<hw>Foin"ing*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>With a push or thrust.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Foison</h1> <Xpage=578>

<hw>Foi"son</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>foison</ets>, fr. L. <ets>fusio</ets> a pouring, effusion. See <er>Fusion</er>.]</ety> <def>Rich harvest; plenty; abundance.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<i>Lowell.</i>

<blockquote> That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming <b>foison</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Foist</h1> <Xpage=578>

<hw>Foist</hw> <tt>(foist)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>fuste</ets> stick, boat, fr. L. <ets>fustis</ets> cudgel. Cf. 1st <er>Fust</er>.]</ety> <def>A light and fast-sailing ship.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Beau. & Fl.</i>

<h1>Foist</h1> <Xpage=578>

<hw>Foist</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Foisted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Foisting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. OD. <ets>vysten</ets> to fizzle, D. <ets>veesten</ets>, E. <ets>fizz</ets>, <ets>fitchet</ets>, bull<ets>fist</ets>.]</ety> <def>To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by <i>in</i>.</def>

<blockquote> Lest negligence or partiality might admit or <b>fois</b>? in abuses corruption. <i>R. Carew.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote> When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious <b>foisting</b> of some words in. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Foist</h1> <Xpage=578>

<hw>Foist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A foister; a sharper.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A trick or fraud; a swindle.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Foister</h1> <Xpage=578>

<hw>Foist"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsitier.</def>

<i>Mir. for Mag.</i>

<h1>Foistied</h1> <Xpage=578>