Noun
an act that violates of the rules of a sport

Verb
become soiled and dirty

Verb
make unclean; "foul the water"

Verb
spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"

Verb
make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"

Verb
commit a foul; break the rules

Verb
hit a foul ball

Verb
become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"

Adjective S.
especially of a ship''s lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor"

Adjective S.
disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"

Adjective S.
characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"

Adjective S.
thoroughly unpleasant; "filthy (or foul or nasty or vile) weather we''re having"

Adjective
(of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines

Adjective S.
violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"

Adjective S.
offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell"

Adjective S.
(of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy"

Adjective S.
highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"

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n.
A bird.

superl.
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.

superl.
Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.

superl.
Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.

superl.
Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.

superl.
Ugly; homely; poor.

superl.
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.

superl.
Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.

superl.
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.

v. t.
To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.

v. t.
To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.

v. t.
To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.

v. t.
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.

v. i.
To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.

v. i.
To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.

n.
An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.

n.
See Foul ball, under Foul, a.

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Foul

Foul , n. [See Fowl.] A bird. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Foul

Foul , a. [Compar. Fouler (-&etil;r); superl. Foulest.] [OE. foul, ful, AS. f&umac;l; akin to D. vuil, G. faul rotten, OHG. f&umac;l, Icel. f&umac;l foul, fetid; Dan. fuul, Sw. ful foul, Goth. f&umac;ls fetid, Lith. puti to be putrid, L. putere to stink, be putrid, pus pus, Gr. py`on pus, to cause to rot, Skr. p&umac;y to stink. 'fb82. Cf. Defile to foul, File to foul, Filth, Pus, Putrid.] 1. 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.

My face is foul with weeping.

2. Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language. 3. Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched. "The foul with Sycorax." Shak.

Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?

4. Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease. 5. Ugly; homely; poor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares.

6. 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.

So foul a sky clears not without a storm.

7. Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play. 8. 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. Foul anchor. (Naut.) See under Anchor. -- Foul ball (Baseball), a ball that first strikes the ground outside of the foul ball lines, or rolls outside of certain limits. -- Foul ball lines (Baseball), lines from the home base, through the first and third bases, to the boundary of the field. -- Foul berth (Naut.), a berth in which a ship is in danger of fouling another vesel. -- Foul bill, ∨ Foul bill of health, a certificate, duly authenticated, that a ship has come from a place where a contagious disorder prevails, or that some of the crew are infected. -- Foul copy, a rough draught, with erasures and corrections; -- opposed to fair or clean copy. "Some writers boast of negligence, and others would be ashamed to show their foul copies." Cowper. -- Foul proof, an uncorrected proof; a proof containing an excessive quantity of errors. -- Foul strike (Baseball), a strike by the batsman when any part of his person is outside of the lines of his position. -- To fall foul, to fall out; to quarrel. [Obs.] "If they be any ways offended, they fall foul." Burton. -- To fall, ∨ run, foul of. See under Fall. -- To make foul water, to sail in such shallow water that the ship's keel stirs the mud at the bottom.

Foul

Foul , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fouled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fouling.] 1. To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire. 2. (Mil.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing. 3. To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles. 4. 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.

Foul

Foul, v. i. 1. To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun. 2. To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.

Foul

Foul, n. 1. An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race. 2. (Baseball) See Foul ball, under Foul, a.

A bird.

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.

To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.

To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.

An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.