To fall foul, to fall out; to quarrel. [Obs.] "If they be any ways offended, they fall foul." Burton.Tofall, or run, foul of. See under Fall.To make foul water, to sail in such shallow water that the ship's keel stirs the mud at the bottom.

Foul
(Foul) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fouled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fouling.]

1. To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.

2. (Mil.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.

3. To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.

4. To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.

Foul
(Foul), v. i.

1. To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.

2. To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.

Foul
(Foul), n.

1. An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.

2. (Baseball) See Foul ball, under Foul, a.

outside of the lines of his position.


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