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7 definitions found 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 1.6 [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}, {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 : (in baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it does not stay between the foul lines on the playing field [syn: {foul ball}] [ant: {fair ball}] 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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