FOX

noun a sly, cunning fellow.

2. fox ·noun the european dragonet.

3. fox ·noun to make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.

4. fox ·noun to intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.

5. fox ·vi to turn sour;

— said of beer, ·etc., when it sours in fermenting.

6. fox ·noun rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar;

— used for seizings or mats.

7. fox ·noun a sword;

— so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.

8. fox ·noun to repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.

9. fox ·noun the fox shark or thrasher shark;

— called also sea fox. ·see thrasher shark, under shark.

10. fox ·noun a tribe of indians which, with the sacs, formerly occupied the region about green bay, wisconsin;

— called also outagamies.

11. fox ·noun a carnivorous animal of the genus vulpes, family canidae, of many species. the european fox (v. vulgaris or v. vulpes), the american red fox (v. fulvus), the american gray fox (v. virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (v. lagopus) are well-known species.