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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. Revelation 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, To make filthy to defile to daub to dirty to bemire to soil as, to foul the clothes to foul the face or hands. Ezekiel 34:18 .
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Foul'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/f/foul.html.
Entry for 'Foul'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/f/foul.html.
