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Foul

FOUL, a.
1. Covered with or containing extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious or offensive; filthy; dirty; not clean; as a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney.
My face is foul with weeping. Job 16.
2. Turbid; thick; muddy; as foul water; a foul stream.
3. Impure; polluted; as a foul mouth.
4. Impure; scurrilous; obscene or profane; as foul words; foul language.
5. Cloudy and stormy; rainy or tempestuous; as foul weather.
6. Impure; defiling; as a foul disease.
7. Wicked; detestable; abominable; as a foul deed; a foul spirit.
Babylon - the hold of every foul spirit. Rev 18.
8. Unfair; not honest; not lawful or according to established rules or customs; as foul play.
9. Hateful; ugly; loathsome.
Hast thou forgot the foul witch Sycorax.
10. Disgraceful; shameful; as a foul defeat.
Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
11. Coarse; gross.
They are all for rank and foul feeding.
12. Full of gross humors or impurities.
You perceive the body of our kingdom, how foul it is.
13. Full of weeds; as, the garden is very foul.
14. Among seamen, entangled; hindered from motion; opposed to clear; as, a rope is foul.
15. Covered with weeds or barnacles; as, the ship has a foul bottom.
16. Not fair; contrary; as a foul wind.
17. Not favorable or safe; dangerous; as a foul road or bay.
1. To fall foul, is to rush on with haste, rough force and unseasonable violence.
2. To run against; as, the ship fell foul of her consort.
FOUL, v.t. To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to bemire; to soil; as, to foul the clothes; to foul the face or hands. Ezek 34:18.
foul appears in definitions for these words:
Affront Afoul Air Air-pipe Anchor Asperse Aspersion Bawd Beblubbered Befoul Beray Besmear Besmirch Besmoke Besmoked Besmut Besnuffed Bespawl Bilingsgate Black-friar Blackly Blur Breathe Calcedon Clean Cleanliness Cleanly Cleanness Cleanse Cleansing Clear Clearing Clearness Colly Corruption Cuttle-fish Daggled Daggling Dark Defile Defiled Defilement Demephitization Demephitize Demephitized Demephitizing Deterge Deterging Detersive Dirt Dirtily Dirtiness Dirty Disgrace Dregginess Dreggish Dreggy Drossiness Drossy Elutriate Elutriation Fair Fall Feculence Feculent Fiend File Filth Filthily Filthiness Filthy Foal Foul Fouling Foully Foulmouthed Foulness Fuliginosity Full-winged Fulmar Fulsome Gloss Grime Grimy Haunt Hawse Honor Impure Impureness Indignity L Leprosy Mephitic Mephitis Mire Moorland Mouthed Mud Muddily Muddiness Muddle Muddling Muddy Mustiness Musty Nasty Neat Neatness Noisome Noxiousness Obscene Pick Play Pollock Predominant Prevaricate Puddle Puddled Puddly Purely Purity Putrefy Ray Reechy Reeky Refine Repent Reproach Roiled Rust Rusty Scalping-iron Scold Scurf Scurrilous Settlement Shame Sheer Shend Shine Slabber Slottery Slough Smut Smutch Smuttily Snotty Soil Soiled Soiliness Soiling Soot Sootiness Sooty Sordes Sordid Spatter Spattering Spotless Squalid Squalidness Squalor Stagnate Stain Sulliage Tainting Turbid Turbidness Turpitude Unclean Uncleanly Uncleanness Unfouled Uninfected Uninfectious Unmiry Unpurified Untainted Untroubled Ventilator Vicious Virus Walk Welter Wipe Work

 

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