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Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.

Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects.

Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows.

To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak.

The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing. Sir W. Raleigh.

One who, or that which, fosters.

A foster child.

Food; nourishment. [Obs.]

A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse. B. Jonson.

A wagonload; a load of any sort. [Obs.] Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer.

Nourishing. [Obs.] T. Carew (1633).

Seventy pounds of lead.

An eddy current.

A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy.

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

p. p. of Fight. [Archaic]

ous, 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.