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entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy. A man's foes shall be they of his own household. Matt. x. 36

A warm dry wind that often blows in the northern valleys of the Alps, due to the indraught of a storm center passing over Central Europe. The wind, heated by compression in its descent from the mountains, reaches the base, particularly in winter, dry and warm.

Enmity. Br. Bedell.

An enemy in war. And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. Sir W. Scott

Same as Fetal.

Same as Fetation.

Same as Feticide.

Same as Fetor.

Same as Fetus.

The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East India. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic. [Written also assafoetida.]

Same as Asafetida.

Defedation. [Obs.]

Superfetation.

To prepare or make ready. [Obs.] His foe was soon addressed. Spenser. Turnus addressed his men to single fight. Dryden. The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming. Jer. Taylor.

Made friends; reconciled. [Obs.] "Deadly foes . . . affriended." Spenser.

y. -- Now and again, now and then; occasionally. -- To and again, to and fro. [Obs.] De Foe.

To terrify; to affright. [Obs.] His manly face that did his foes agrise. Spenser.

To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.] A labyrinth to amaze his foes. Shak.

If; -- a word used by old English authors. Shak. Nay, an thou dalliest, then I am thy foe. B. Jonson. An if, and if; if.

To or towards any place. [Archaic] De Foe.