foujdarrycourt

A criminal court. ( Anglo Indian .) foul, *foule, *ful, *fule, a ., adv . & s. [A. S. fúl ; cogn. with Dut. vuil , Icel. fúll , Ger. faul , Dan. fuul , Sw.ful , Goth. fuls .] A. As adjective: I. Ordinary Language: 1. Dirty, filthy, miry; not clean; covered with or containing dirt or extraneous matter which is injurious, offensive, or noxious. "My face is foul with weeping." -Job xvi. 16. 2. Thick or muddy; turbid; not clear. "The stream is foul with stains Of rushing torrents and descending rains." Add is on. 3. Thick or overgrown with weeds; as, The ground is foul. 4. Impure; tainted; polluted. "Every day the carca of some prisoner dead, of thirst and foul air, had been flung to the sharks." -Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. xv. 5. Obscene; scurrilous; filthy; profane; abusive; as, foul language. 6. Given to or using obscene, scurrilous, or filthy language. "With foul mouth, And in the witne of his proper ear, To call him villain. Shakesp.: Measure for Measure, v. 1. 7. Wicked; criminal; abominable; hateful; odious. "The principal witne for the prosecution had been convicted of a series of foul perjuries."-Macaulay: 3."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. iv. 8. Loathsome; odious; disgusting. "Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow Upon the foul disease." Shakesp.: Lear, 1. 1 9. Disgraceful; shameful. "Too well I see and rue the dire event, That with sad overthrow and foul defeat Hath lost us heaven." Milton: P. L., 1. 135. 10. Unlucky; unfavorable. "Some foul mischance Torment me for my love's forgetfulne !" Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 2. 11. Unfair, unlawful; not honest or straightforward. "By foul play were we heaved thence, But ble edly helped hither." Shakesp.: Tempest, i. 2. *12. Unsightly; of little value. "Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares." Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida , ii. 3. 13. Stormy; cloudy, rainy, and tempestuous. "So foul a sky clears not without a storm." Shakesp.: King John, iv. 2. *14. Coarse; gro . "You will have no notion of delicacies if you table IMG:content-0081.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Billiards : A foul stroke. [A. II. 1.] 2. Boating : Applied to the action of a crew in a race, when they come into collision or interfere with the progre of their opponents out of their own water. *(1) To fall foul : To fall out, to quarrel. "If they be any ways offended they fall foul ."- Burton :Anat. of Melancholy. (2) To fall or run foul of : To come or run against. with force; to come into collision with. (3) To make foul water : Naut .: To come into such shoal water that the keel of the ve el is so near to the bottom that the motion of the water under it stirs up the mud and makes the water foul.