Hypertext Webster Gateway: "foul"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Foul \Foul\, n.
In various games or sports, an act done contrary to the
rules; a foul stroke, hit, play, or the like.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Foul \Foul\ (foul), n. [See {Fowl}.]
A bird. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Foul \Foul\ (foul), a. [Compar. Fouler (-[~e]r); superl.
{Foulest}.] [OE. foul, ful, AS. f[=u]l; akin to D. vuil, G.
faul rotten, OHG. f[=u]l, Icel. f[=u]l foul, fetid; Dan.
fuul, Sw. ful foul, Goth. f[=u]ls fetid, Lith. puti to be
putrid, L. putere to stink, be putrid, pus pus, Gr. py`on
pus, to cause to rot, Skr. p[=u]y to stink. [root]82. Cf.
{Defile} to foul, {File} to foul, {Filth}, {Pus}, {Putrid}.]
1. Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is
injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy;
dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul
cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's
bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun
becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with
polluted water.
My face is foul with weeping. --Job. xvi.
16.
2. Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words;
foul language.
3. Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched. ``The
foul with Sycorax.'' --Shak.
Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
--Milton.
4. Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
5. Ugly; homely; poor. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares.
--Shak.
6. Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as,
a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not
fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.
So foul a sky clears not without a storm. --Shak.
7. Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a
game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest;
dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
8. Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or
entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope
or cable may get foul while paying it out.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Foul \Foul\, v. i.
1. To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of
firing, as a gun.
2. To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with
something; as, the two boats fouled.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Foul \Foul\, n.
1. An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
2. (Baseball) See {Foul ball}, under {Foul}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Foul \Foul\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fouled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fouling}.]
1. To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as,
to foul the face or hands with mire.
2. (Mil.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in
the process of firing.
3. To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its
sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
4. To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or
cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as,
one boat fouled the other in a race.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
foul
adj 1: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a
disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a
loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is
repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
[syn: {disgusting}, {disgustful}, {distasteful}, {loathly},
{loathsome}, {repellent}, {repellant}, {repelling}, {revolting},
{wicked}, {yucky}]
2: offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell" [syn: {fetid}, {foetid},
{foul-smelling}, {funky}, {noisome}, {smelly}, {putrid},
{stinking}]
3: violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter";
"used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting
serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" [syn: {cheating(a)},
{dirty}, {unsporting}, {unsportsmanlike}]
4: (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines [ant: {fair}]
5: (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty)
copy" [syn: {dirty}, {marked-up}]
6: (informal) thoroughly unpleasant; "filthy (or foul or nasty
or vile) weather we're having" [syn: {filthy}, {nasty}, {vile}]
7: characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul
language"; "smutty jokes" [syn: {filthy}, {nasty}, {smutty}]
8: disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter;
"as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of
a room" [syn: {filthy}, {nasty}]
9: especially of a ship's lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a
foul anchor" [syn: {afoul(ip)}, {fouled}]
n : (sports) an act that violates of the rules of the sport
v 1: hit a foul ball, in baseball
2: make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" [syn:
{pollute}, {contaminate}]
3: become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our
drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" [syn: {clog},
{choke off}, {clog up}, {back up}, {congest}, {choke}]
[ant: {unclog}]
4: commit a foul; break the rules
5: spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river
by emptying raw sewage into it" [syn: {befoul}, {defile},
{maculate}]
6: make foul; "foul the water"
7: become foul or dirty
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