meaning of foul
1. A bird.
2. 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 ships bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.
3. Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
4. Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.
5. Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
6. Ugly; homely; poor.
7. 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.
8. Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc. ; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
9. 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.
10. To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.
11. To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.
12. To cover (a ships bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
13. 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.
14. To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.
15. To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.
16. An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
17. See Foul ball, under Foul, a.
18. an act that violates of the rules of a sport
Related Words
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