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) 2.0 [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},
{skanky}, {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: 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 : an act that violates of the rules of a sport
v 1: hit a foul ball
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 unclean; "foul the water"
7: become soiled and dirty