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Fox

noun

(pl. foxes)

1.

Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs.

2.

A shifty deceptive person. Synonyms: dodger, slyboots.

3.

The grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox.

4.

English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806). Synonym: Charles James Fox.

5.

English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691). Synonym: George Fox.

6.

A member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River.

7.

The Algonquian language of the Fox.

verb

(past & past part. foxed; pres. part. foxing)

1.

Deceive somebody. Synonyms: flim-flam, fob, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick.

2.

Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly. Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fuddle, throw. "This question completely threw me" , "This question befuddled even the teacher"

3.

Become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots.

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"Fox" Quotes from Famous Books

... Clare that she go lie down on the bed, but when she begged to remain beside him, he had not the heart to insist. In all that time they heard nothing beyond the natural sounds of the night; the stirrings of little furry footfalls among the leaves; the distant bark of a fox. ...

— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner

... hounds. My father would tell this joke on him. When "Daddy" Rice was baptising him in Dick's River grandpa said: "Hold on, Father Rice, I hear Sounder barking on the cliffs." Sounder was his favorite hound. There was a Mr. Britt who was a great fox hunter, who lived near my grandfather, and whose wife was opposed to his hunting. One morning my grandfather went by Mr. Britt's house winding his hunter's horn. Mr. Britt jumped for his trousers and so did Mrs. Britt, who ...

— The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation • Carry A. Nation

... steeple-chases, ran races, and talked of his former exploits. He was surrounded with the trophies of his rod and gun; the walls were plentifully garnished, he told us, with moose-horns and deer-horns, bear-skins, and fox-tails; for the captain's double-barreled rifle had seen service in Canada and Jamaica; he had killed salmon in Nova Scotia, and trout, by his own account, in all the streams of the three kingdoms. But in an evil hour a seductive stranger came from London; ...

— The Oregon Trail • Francis Parkman, Jr.

... middle of June, commodore Fox, with six ships of war, cruising in the latitude of Cape Ortegal in Gallicia, took above forty French ships, richly laden from St. Domingo, after they had been abandoned by their convoy. But the French king ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... Fox hill, w^{th} the Plantations of the Back river & the old Pocolson river on the Northward side, and from Elizabeth river to Chesepeake River on the southward side of the river, being w^{th}in the Countie of Elizabeth ...

— Colonial Records of Virginia • Various

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