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(<i>n.</i>) A bird.<p>2. (<i>superl.</i>) 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 ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.<p>3. (<i>superl.</i>) Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.<p>4. (<i>superl.</i>) Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.<p>5. (<i>superl.</i>) Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.<p>6. (<i>superl.</i>) Ugly; homely; poor.<p>7. (<i>superl.</i>) 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.<p>8. (<i>superl.</i>) Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.<p>9. (<i>superl.</i>) 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.<p>10. (<i>v. t.</i>) To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.<p>11. (<i>v. t.</i>) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.<p>12. (<i>v. t.</i>) To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impeded its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.<p>13. (<i>v. t.</i>) 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.<p>14. (<i>v. i.</i>) To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.<p>15. (<i>v. i.</i>) To become entangled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.<p>16. (<i>n.</i>) An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.<p>17. 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