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- English Word Fovilla Definition One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.
- English Word Fovillae Definition of Fovilla
- English Word Fowl Definition Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.
- English Word Fowl Definition Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus).
- English Word Fowl Definition To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.
- English Word Fowled Definition of Fowl
- English Word Fowler Definition A sportsman who pursues wild fowl, or takes or kills for food.
- English Word Fowler's solution Definition An aqueous solution of arsenite of potassium, of such strength that one hundred parts represent one part of arsenious acid, or white arsenic; -- named from Fowler, an English physician who first brought it into use.
- English Word Fowlerite Definition A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc.
- English Word Fowling Definition of Fowl
- English Word Fowls Definition of Fowl
- English Word Fox Definition A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.
- English Word Fox Definition The European dragonet.
- English Word Fox Definition The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.
- English Word Fox Definition A sly, cunning fellow.
- English Word Fox Definition Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.
- English Word Fox Definition A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
- English Word Fox Definition A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies.
- English Word Fox Definition To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
- English Word Fox Definition To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
- English Word Fox Definition To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
- English Word Fox Definition To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
- English Word Fox-hunting Definition Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes.
- English Word Foxearth Definition A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.
- English Word Foxed Definition of Fox
- English Word Foxed Definition Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings.
- English Word Foxed Definition Repaired by foxing; as, foxed boots.
- English Word Foxery Definition Behavior like that of a fox; cunning.
- English Word Foxes Definition of Fox
- English Word Foxes Definition See Fox, n., 7.