A light and fast-sailing ship. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in. Lest negligence or partiality might admit or fois in abuses corruption. R. Carew. When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in. South.
A foister; a sharper. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
A trick or fraud; a swindle. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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