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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Foul \Foul\ (foul), n. [See {Fowl}.] A bird. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] My face is foul with weeping. --Job. xvi. 16. [1913 Webster] 2. Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language. [1913 Webster] 3. Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched. "The foul with Sycorax." --Shak. [1913 Webster] Who first seduced them to that foul revolt? --Milton. [1913 Webster] 4. Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease. [1913 Webster] 5. Ugly; homely; poor. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] So foul a sky clears not without a storm. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 7. Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] {Foul anchor}. (Naut.) See under {Anchor}. {Foul ball} (Baseball), a ball that first strikes the ground outside of the foul ball lines, or rolls outside of certain limits. {Foul ball lines} (Baseball), lines from the home base, through the first and third bases, to the boundary of the field. {Foul berth} (Naut.), a berth in which a ship is in danger of fouling another vesel. {Foul bill}, or {Foul bill of health}, a certificate, duly authenticated, that a ship has come from a place where a contagious disorder prevails, or that some of the crew are infected. {Foul copy}, a rough draught, with erasures and corrections; -- opposed to fair or clean copy. "Some writers boast of negligence, and others would be ashamed to show their foul copies." --Cowper. {Foul proof}, an uncorrected proof; a proof containing an excessive quantity of errors. {Foul strike} (Baseball), a strike by the batsman when any part of his person is outside of the lines of his position. {To fall foul}, to fall out; to quarrel. [Obs.] "If they be any ways offended, they fall foul." --Burton. {To fall foul of} or {To run foul of}. See under {Fall}. {To make foul water}, to sail in such shallow water that the ship's keel stirs the mud at the bottom. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Foul \Foul\, n. 1. An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race. [1913 Webster] 2. (Baseball) See {Foul ball}, under {Foul}, a. [1913 Webster] 3. In various games or sports, an act done contrary to the rules; a foul stroke, hit, play, or the like. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mil.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing. [1913 Webster] 3. To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Foul \Foul\, v. i. 1. To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun. [1913 Webster] 2. To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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}, {foul}, {loathly}, {loathsome}, {repellent}, {repellant}, {repelling}, {revolting}, {skanky}, {wicked}, {yucky}] 2: offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky" [syn: {fetid}, {foetid}, {foul}, {foul- smelling}, {funky}, {noisome}, {smelly}, {stinking}, {ill- scented}] 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}, {foul}, {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}, {foul}, {marked-up}] 6: characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes" [syn: {cruddy}, {filthy}, {foul}, {nasty}, {smutty}] 7: disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room" [syn: {filthy}, {foul}, {nasty}] 8: especially of a ship's lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor" [syn: {afoul(ip)}, {foul}, {fouled}] n 1: an act that violates the rules of a sport v 1: hit a foul ball 2: make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" [syn: {pollute}, {foul}, {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}, {foul}] [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: {foul}, {befoul}, {defile}, {maculate}] 6: make unclean; "foul the water" 7: become soiled and dirty