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Fox
(ISO 639)
(senseid) A small-to-medium-sized canine mammal, related to dogs and wolves, with a flattened skull, upright triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail, of the following groups:
Any member of the genus (taxfmt); a (vern).
(quote-journal)
(senseid) The fox, a small carnivore ((taxfmt)) with red or silver fur.
(hypo)
(ux)
15th century, ''(w)'', (nowrap)
- The fox went out on a chase one night, / he prayed to the Moon to give him light, / for he had many a mile to go that night / before he reached the town-o, town-o, town-o. / He had many a mile to go that night / before he reached the town-o.
(RQ:Jefferies Amateur Poacher)
(RQ:Wolfe Urth)
Other canines that resemble true foxes, of the genera (taxfmt), (taxfmt), (taxfmt), and (taxfmt).
(hyper)
The fur of a (l).
A terrier.
The (vern), a fish, (taxlink), so called from its yellow color.
(senseid) A cunning person.
(RQ:Eddison Worm)
(senseid) A physically attractive person, typically a woman.
(syn)
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(quote-book)
A person with reddish brown hair, typically a woman.
A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
A hidden transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
{{quote-text|en|year=2006|author=H. Ward Silver|title=The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual
The fourteenth Lenormand card.
A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5)
Air-to-air weapon launched.(cite-web)
(quote-video game)
Someone who fuses many different influences and concepts in their philosophy or worldview.
(antonyms)
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{{quote-book|en|year=1992|author=J. E. Tiles|author2=Jim E. Tiles|title=John Dewey|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9780415053167|page=220
(quote-book) And when I ſee them often foxed, me thinke the Proverbe ſutes thoſe ſutes, ''what is the fox but his caſe''? I ſhould thinke them to be ''Eutrapelus'' his enemies, whom he cloathed richly to make them ſpend freely, and grow deboſhed.
Quoted in 2000, John Lewes, ''Jock Lewes: Co-founder of the SAS'' (page 132)
- Have you any news of Miriam? As I have had no reply to my delicately worded epistle, I can only presume that you foxed me with the wrong address, and that you are yourself already engaged to be married to her.
To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See (m).)
To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
{{RQ:Pepys Diary|II|29 September 1661
To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
(alt form of)
A fox or its fur.
A liar or schemer.
(l)
late 10th century, of Eynsham|Ælfric, ''Lives of Saints'', quoting Matthew 8:20
- (quote)
(infl of)