adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + foul. ] In collision; entangled. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

To run afoul of, to run against or come into collision with, especially so as to become entangled or to cause injury. [ 1913 Webster ]

The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. same as ampule.
Syn. -- phial, vial, ampule, ampul [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. (Arch.) The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Befouled p. pr. & vb. n. Befouling. ] [ Cf. AS. bef&unr_;lan; pref. be- + f&unr_;lan to foul. See Foul, a. ] 1. To make foul; to soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To entangle or run against so as to impede motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. made disgustingly dirty. a building befouled with soot [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. having unusually large shoulders. big-shouldered and heavy-armed
Syn. -- broad-shouldered, square-shouldered. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A curved handle. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Boulanger, a French mineralogist. ] (Min.) A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. boulangisme. ] The spirit or principles of a French political movement identified with Gen. Georges Boulanger (d. 1891), whose militarism and advocacy of revenge on Germany attracted to him a miscellaneous party of monarchists and Republican malcontents. -- Bou*lan"gist n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. Same as Bowlder. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. Sw. bullra to roar, rattle, Dan. buldre, dial. Sw. bullersteen larger kind of pebbles; perh. akin to E. bellow. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bowlder clay, the unstratified clay deposit of the Glacial or Drift epoch, often containing large numbers of bowlders. --
Bowlder wall, a wall constructed of large stones or bowlders. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. abounding in large rocks or stones; as, bouldered fields.
Syn. -- rocky, bouldery, stony. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Characterized by bowlders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. (Gr. Antiq.) A legislative council of elders or chiefs; a senate. The boule of Homeric times was an aristocratic body of princes and leaders, merely advisory to the king. The Athenian boule of Solon's time was an elective senate of 400, acting as a check on the popular ecclesia, for which it examined and prepared bills for discussion. It later increased to 500, chosen by lot, and extended its functions to embrace certain matters of administration and oversight. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Legislature of modern Greece. See Legislature. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F. boulevard, boulevart, fr. G. bollwerk. See Bulwark. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris. F. Harrison. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F., fr. bouleverser to overthrow. ] Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Same as Buhl, Buhlwork. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Corrupted form Bolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Arch.) (a) A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo. (b) One of the shafts of a clustered column. [ Written also bowtel, boltel, boultell, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as big-shouldered.
Syn. -- big-shouldered, square-shouldered. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Jowl. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. See Choltry. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Can. [ OF. coude. The l was inserted by mistake, under the influence of should and would. ] Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. coulée, fr. couler to run or flow. ] A stream; (Geol.) a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a cañon, which has precipitous sides. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. Color; -- chiefly used in a few French phrases, as couler de rose, color of rose; and hence, adjectively, rose-colored; roseate. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A suit of cards, as hearts or clubs; -- used in some French games. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F., fr. couler to flow, glide. ] 1. A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A fluting in a sword blade. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The outside stock exchange, or “curb market, ” of Paris. [ French Use ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F., a strainer. ] 1. A deep gorge; a gully. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Hydraul. Engin.) A dredging machine for excavating canals, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ From Coulomb, a French physicist and electrican. ] (Physics) The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one ampère in one second. Formerly called weber. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Elec.) Any instrument by which electricity can be measured in coulombs. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Physics) The law that the force exerted between two electric or magnetic charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely to the square of the distance between them. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Same as Colter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The puffin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., prop., a dropping. ] (Hort.) A disease affecting grapes, esp. in California, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ See Defile, v. t. ] 1. To tread down. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make foul; to defile. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Prob. of Arabic or Bedouin origin. ] (Zool.) A special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling; the swift camel; -- called also herire, and maharik. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. doy^los slave + kratei^n to rule. ] A government by slaves. [ Written also dulocracy. ] Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) A small, nocturnal, South American monkey of the genus Aotus (formerly Nyctipithecus trivirgatus), with large owl-like eyes; hence, the common name owl monkey. [ Written also Durukuli and dourikuli. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

‖ [ F. ] (Bot.) A variety of pear of large size and excellent flavor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. en- + OF. fouldre, foldre, lightning, F. foudre, L. fulgur. ] Mixed with, or emitting, lightning. [ Obs. ] “With foul enfouldred smoke.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ F., p. p. of engouler to swallow up; pref. en- (L. in) + gueule mouth. ] (Her.) Same as Engouled. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To indue or imbue (a body) with soul. [ R. ] Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Fowl. ] A bird. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Fouler superl. Foulest. ] [ OE. foul, ful, AS. fūl; akin to D. vuil, G. faul rotten, OHG. fūl, Icel. fūl foul, fetid; Dan. fuul, Sw. ful foul, Goth. fūls fetid, Lith. puti to be putrid, L. putere to stink, be putrid, pus pus, Gr. py`on pus, to cause to rot, Skr. pūy to stink. √82. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

My face is foul with weeping. Job. xvi. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched. “The foul with Sycorax.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who first seduced them to that foul revolt? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Ugly; homely; poor. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

So foul a sky clears not without a storm. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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, or
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 foul of or
To 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled. [ 1913 Webster ]