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In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.

The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.

Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white. Spenser.

hy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion. [Obs.] Most loathsome, filthy, foul, and full of vile disdain. Spenser.

To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace. Spenser.

indecent; unchaste; lewd. [Obs.] Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. Pope. Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women]. Sir T. North.

Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.] An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser.

ade or dishonor by an unequal marriage. [Obs.] Alas! that any of my nation Should ever so foul disparaged be. Chaucer.

of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. [Eng.] And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser.

ensive of. [Obs.] Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God. R. of Gloucester. I doubt some foul play. Shak. That I of doubted danger had no fear. Spenser.

To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak. Halliwell.

Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.

Foul with lees; feculent. Harvey.

Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent. Boyle.

. Your honor and your goodness is so evident. Shak. And in our faces evident the sings Of foul concupiscence. Milton.

The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.

nordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims. Foul exorbitant desires. Milton.

A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.

the lines of his position and facing the batsman. (b) A batted ball that falls inside the foul lines; -- called also a fair hit. -- Fair maid. (Zoöl.) (a) The European pilchard (Clupea pilchardus) when dried. (b) The southern scup (Stenotomus Gardeni). [Virginia] -- Fair one, a handsome woman; a beauty, -- Fair play,…

response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. -- To fall foul of. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon. -- To fall from, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall fro…