Part 4538

<h1>Fought</h1> <Xpage=589>

<hw>Fought</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <def><tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> of <er>Fight</er>.</def>

<h1>Foughten</h1> <Xpage=589>

<hw>Fought"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <def><tt>p. p.</tt> of <er>Fight</er>.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<h1>Foul</h1> <Xpage=589>

<hw>Foul</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Fowl</er>.]</ety> <def>A bird.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Foul</h1> <Xpage=589>

<hw>Foul</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>Compar.</tt> Fouler <tt>(-&etil;r)</tt>; <tt>superl.</tt> <er>Foulest</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>foul</ets>, <ets>ful</ets>, AS. <ets>f&umac;l</ets>; akin to D. <ets>vuil</ets>, G. <ets>faul</ets> rotten, OHG. <ets>f&umac;l</ets>, Icel. <ets>f&umac;l</ets> foul, fetid; Dan. <ets>fuul</ets>, Sw. <ets>ful</ets> foul, Goth. <ets>f&umac;ls</ets> fetid, Lith. <ets>puti</ets> to be putrid, L. <ets>putere</ets> to stink, be putrid, <ets>pus</ets> pus, Gr. <grk>py`on</grk> pus, to cause to rot, Skr. <ets>p&umac;y</ets> to stink. \'fb82. Cf. <er>Defile</er> to foul, <er>File</er> to foul, <er>Filth</er>, <er>Pus</er>, <er>Putrid</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; <as>as, a <ex>foul</ex> cloth; <ex>foul</ex> hands; a <ex>foul</ex> chimney; <ex>foul</ex> air; a ship's bottom is <ex>foul</ex> when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes <ex>foul</ex> from repeated firing; a well is <ex>foul</ex> with polluted water.</as></def>

<blockquote>My face is <b>foul</b> with weeping. <i>Job. xvi. 16.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; <as>as, <ex>foul</ex> words; <ex>foul</ex> language.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.</def> "The <i>foul</i> with Sycorax."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>Who first seduced them to that <b>foul</b> revolt? <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Loathsome; disgusting; <as>as, a <ex>foul</ex> disease</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Ugly; homely; poor.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<blockquote>Let us, like merchants, show our <b>foulest</b> wares. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; <as>as, a <ex>foul</ex> wind; a <ex>foul</ex> road</as>; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.</def>

<blockquote>So <b>foul</b> a sky clears not without a storm. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; <as>as, <ex>foul</ex> play</as>.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to <i>clear</i>; <as>as, a rope or cable may get <ex>foul</ex> while paying it out</as>.</def>

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<cs><col>Foul anchor</col>. <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Anchor</er>.</cd> -- <col>Foul ball</col> <fld>(Baseball)</fld>, <cd>a ball that first strikes the ground outside of the foul ball lines, or rolls outside of certain limits.</cd> -- <col>Foul ball lines</col> <fld>(Baseball)</fld>, <cd>lines from the home base, through the first and third bases, to the boundary of the field.</cd> -- <col>Foul berth</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a berth in which a ship is in danger of fouling another vesel.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Foul bill</col>, &or; <col>Foul bill of health</col></mcol>, <cd>a certificate, duly authenticated, that a ship has come from a place where a contagious disorder prevails, or that some of the crew are infected.</cd> -- <col>Foul copy</col>, <cd>a rough draught, with erasures and corrections; -- opposed to <i>fair<i> or <i>clean copy<i>.</cd> "Some writers boast of negligence, and others would be ashamed to show their <i>foul copies<i>." <i>Cowper.</i> -- <col>Foul proof</col>, <cd>an uncorrected proof; a proof containing an excessive quantity of errors.</cd> -- <col>Foul strike</col> <fld>(Baseball)</fld>, <cd>a strike by the batsman when any part of his person is outside of the lines of his position.</cd> -- <col>To fall foul</col>, <cd>to fall out; to quarrel.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "If they be any ways offended, they <i>fall foul<i>." <i>Burton.</i> -- <mcol><col>To</col> <col>fall, &or; run</col>, <col>foul of</col></mcol>. <cd>See under <er>Fall</er>.</cd> -- <col>To make foul water</col>, <cd>to sail in such shallow water that the ship's keel stirs the mud at the bottom.</cd></cs>

<h1>Foul</h1> <Xpage=590>

<hw>Foul</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fouled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fouling</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; <as>as, to <ex>foul</ex> the face or hands with mire</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; <as>as, a bottom <ex>fouled</ex> with barnacles</as>.</def>