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Achievement; deed; performance. [Obs.] Fortune, the foe of famous chevisance. Spenser.

The quality of being cleared. Imputed by his friends to the clearedness, by his foes to the searedness, of his conscience. T. Fuller.

Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.

To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate. You with your foes combine, And seem your own destruction to design Dryden. So sweet did harp and voice combine. Sir W. Scott.

compliment to. Monarchs should their inward soul disguise; . . . Should compliment their foes and shun their friends. Prior.

the opposite of, or antithesis to, another; an antonym; -- the opposite of synonym; as, "foe" is the counterterm of "friend". C. J. Smith.

Obs.] So priketh hem nature in here corages. Chaucer. My lord, cheer up your spirits; our foes are nigh, and this soft courage makes your followers faint. Shak.

A coal broker. [Prov. Eng.] De Foe.

disagreeable things and antipathies. In our dear peril. Shak. Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day. Shak.

A defeat; an overthrow. [Obs.] After his foes' defeasance. Spenser.

ent. Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend -- any every foe. Pope. Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects. Macaulay.

A cleansing quality or power. De Foe.

Decided; resolute. "Adetermined foe."" Sparks.

To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result. His retiring foe Shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow. Addison.

To throw into disorder; to break the array of. Who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged. Fenton.

To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat. And his proud foes discomfit in victorious field. Spenser.

Contest; struggle; quarrel. De Foe. Beyond dispute, Without dispute, indisputably; incontrovertibly.

r of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life. Shak.

ear. "Boats . . . sewed together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff like rosin." De Foe. -- To do to death, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.] -- To do up. (a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] Chaucer. (b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up. (c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.] (d) To starch and iron. "A rich…

an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.