FOUL, a. 1. Covered with or containing extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious or offensive; filthy; dirty; not clean; as a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney.My face is foul with weeping. Job. 16.2. Turbid; thick; muddy; as foul water; a foul stream.3. Impure; polluted; as a foul mouth.4. Impure; scurrilous; obscene or profane; as foul words; foul language.5. Cloudy and stormy; rainy or tempestuous; as foul weather.6. Impure; defiling; as a foul disease.7. Wicked; detestable; abominable; as a foul deed; a foul spirit.Babylon - the hold of every foul spirit. Rev. 18.8. Unfair; not honest; not lawful or according to established rules or customs; as foul play.9. Hateful; ugly; loathsome.Hast thou forgot the foul witch Sycorax.10. Disgraceful; shameful; as a foul defeat.Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?11. Coarse; gross.They are all for rank and foul feeding.12. Full of gross humors or impurities.You perceive the body of our kingdom, how foul it is.13. Full of weeds; as, the garden is very foul.14. Among seamen, entangled; hindered from motion; opposed to clear; as, a rope is foul.15. Covered with weeds or barnacles; as, the ship has a foul bottom.16. Not fair; contrary; as a foul wind.17. Not favorable or safe; dangerous; as a foul road or bay.1. To fall foul, is to rush on with haste, rough force and unseasonable violence.2. To run against; as, the ship fell foul of her consort.FOUL, v.t. To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to bemire; to soil; as, to foul the clothes; to foul the face or hands. Ezek. 34:18.
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