fow

[FULL.] Full, drunk. fow (1), s. [Etym. doubtful.] 1. (See extract.) " Fow , an iron fork of two appropriate prongs, in a long, slender, smooth, elastic handle or pole, for throwing up the sheaves in building the sheaves in a corn stack, and for throwing down the stack." -Gl . Surv . Nairns. (Jamie son.) 2. A mow or heap of corn in the sheaves. fow (2), fows, s. [Foos.] *fow-age, s . [FEUAGE.] but becoming circular or nearly so by night. This fits them to be nocturnal animals. The American or Red Fox is Canis fulvus . Many skins are annu- ally exported from this country. Vulpes lagopus is the Arctic fox. The Deccan fox is V. benga lens is , though Bengal and the Deccan are some distance apart. Vulpes vulgar is , formerly and still by many called, after the example of Linnæus, Canis vulpes , is the common English species. Its cunning is pro- verbial. It is an inhabitant of nearly all Europe, as well as of Western Asia and Northern Africa. Other species are the black or silver gray, the cro - gray, and the cro -woods foxes. (2) Callionymus lyra , the Gemmeous Dragonet, a fish, so called from its yellow color. several rope-yarns together. mats, sennits, and gaskets. 3. Mech .: A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it. [FOX-BOLT.] fox-bolt, s . A description of bolt which is made tight by a fox or wedge driven into a split in the end. fox-brush, s. The brush or tail of a fox. fox-chop, s . Bot.: Mesembryanthemum vulpinum . fox-fish, s . Zobl.: [Fox, 8. , II. 3 (3).] fox-grape, s . IMG:content-0098.png:[blocks in formation] Mech.: A split cotter with a thin wedge of steel driven into the end to prevent its working back. fox-shark, 8. Ichthy.: A shark, Alopias , or Alopecias vulpes ; called also the Sea-fox, the Thresher, and the Sea- ape. It attains a length of about fifteen feet, and is found occasionally in the British seas. The resem- blance to a fox is in the length and roughne of the tail. Bot .: Lycopodium clavatum . fox's-foot, s. Bot.: A gra , Dactyl is glomerata . fox, v . t . & i. [Fox, 8.] 1. To deceive; to cheat; to entrap; to swindle. ""Fore Jove, the captain foxed him rarely." Mayne: City Match , iii. 1. 2. To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink. "He never foxes himself but with one sort of wine, or in such a peculiar unaltered bowl." - Boyle: Works, vol. vi., p. 9. 3. To make sour, as beer in fermenting. II. Bootmak .: To repair boots by adding an outer covering or upper leather over the usual upper. B. Intransitive: 1. To sham; to feign; to make pretense. 2. To turn or become sour, as beer in fermenting. fox-bāne, s. [Eng. fox , and bane .] fox'-tail, *fox-tayle, s . [Eng. for , and tail .] I. Ord. Lang .: The tail or brush of a fox. II. Technically : IMG:content-0099.png:[blocks in formation] foxtrap In the point of the pin is inserted a thin wedge of hard wood. When this reaches the bottom of the hole, it sinks into and spreads the end of the pin so as to bind it very firmly in the hole. With a tenon, it is usual to insert a number of small wedges, so that it may not be split much at any one point.