Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Foxing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fox \Fox\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foxed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Foxing}.] [See {Fox}, n., cf. Icel. fox imposture.]
1. To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
I drank . . . so much wine that I was almost foxed.
--Pepys.
2. To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
3. To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper
leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
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