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behind the times, over- conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old. [Written also fogie and fogey.] [Colloq.] Notorious old bore; regular old fogy. Thackeray.

The principles and conduct of a fogy. [Colloq.]

An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt; poh; fle. Shak.

A Buddhist priest. See Fo.

ilty. A disposition radically noble and generous, clouded and overshadowed by superficial foibles. De Quincey.

To tread under foot; to trample. King Richard . . . caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled under foot. Knoless. Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle. Spenser.

Capable of being foiled.

One who foils or frustrates. Johnson.

A foil. Simmonds.

The beech marten (Mustela foina). See Marten.

Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play. [Obs.] Marston.

With a push or thrust. [Obs.]

ty; abundance. [Archaic] Lowell. That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison. Shak.

; 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.

One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsitier. Mir. for Mag.

Fusty. [Obs.]

Fustiness; mustiness. [Obs.]

Fusty; musty. [Obs.] Johnson.

To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter. As a vesture shalt thou fold them up. Heb. i. 12.

See Faldage.