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Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [Obs.] It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also. Chaucer.

To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish. Barrow.

To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.

TO make foul; to soil; to defile. [Obs.] Milton.

To foul with smoke.

To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.

To befoul with snuff. Young.

soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.

To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle. [Obs.] Milton.

A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.

remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. C. Kingsley.

Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.

of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard. Macaulay.

A large pustule, or a coarse eruption. Foul scurf and blotches him defile. Thomson.

e, for carrying liquor or beer. [Obs.] Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. Shak.

to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief. Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver! Milton.

A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones.

ertainly; in truth; verily. [Archaic] Certes it great pity was to see Him his nobility so foul deface. Spenser.

Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse. To clean out, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money. [Colloq.] De Quincey.