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To indue or imbue (a body) with soul. [R.] Emerson.

us, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water. My face is foul with weeping. Job. xvi. 16.…

Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause. Addison.

Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language. Shak.

A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.

To flash, as lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder. [Obs.] "Flames of fouldering heat." Spenser.

Foully. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In a foul manner; filthily; nastily; shamefully; unfairly; dishonorably. I foully wronged him; do forgive me, do. Gay.

The quality or condition of being foul.

A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet. Mollett.

An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies. [Written also ghole .] Moore.

Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.

See Golding.

n aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.

An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures. Dunglison.

Having a high or noble spirit; honorable. E. Everett.

A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.

An owl. See Howlet.

A piece of woodland; a small wood. [Obs.] See Holt.

Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.