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Fox

noun

(pl. foxes)

1.

Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs.

2.

A shifty deceptive person. Synonyms: dodger, slyboots.

3.

The grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox.

4.

English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806). Synonym: Charles James Fox.

5.

English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691). Synonym: George Fox.

6.

A member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River.

7.

The Algonquian language of the Fox.

verb

(past & past part. foxed; pres. part. foxing)

1.

Deceive somebody. Synonyms: flim-flam, fob, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick.

2.

Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly. Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fuddle, throw. "This question completely threw me" , "This question befuddled even the teacher"

3.

Become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots.

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"Fox" Quotes from Famous Books

... Fox began his parliamentary career by being decidedly awkward and filling his speeches with needless repetitions, yet he became renowned as one of Great Britain's most brilliant speakers ...

— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton

... in the fugitive's path was narrow and dense. Below it, in a patch of hillocky pasture ground, sloping to a pond of steel-bright ice, a red fox was diligently hunting. He ran hither and thither, furtive, but seemingly erratic, poking his nose into half-covered moss-tufts and under the roots of dead stumps, looking for mice or shrews. He found a couple of the latter, but these were small satisfaction to ...

— Kings in Exile • Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

... made to him for the exercise of his art abroad; but hunting, and attachment to his native soil, were his ruling passions. He lived at home, in the style most agreeable to his disposition, and nothing could induce him to quit Dunhalow and the fox-hounds." ...

— Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee • William Carleton

... details are somewhat cumbrous. Now in one of these charges some of us captured a number of the opposing force, among them a young lieutenant. Why this particular capture should have impressed me so I cannot tell, but memory is a tricky thing. A large red fox scared up from his lair by the fight at Castleman's Ferry stood for a moment looking at me; and I shall never forget the stare of that red fox. At one of our fights near Kernstown a spent bullet struck a horse on the ...

— The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 • Basil L. Gildersleeve

... the principal things which George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, looked after. In boyhood he was a shepherd, in youth a shoemaker, in manhood an expounder of Christianity. No one could have had a series of occupations more comprehensive or practical. The history of the world proves that it is as important for men to look after ...

— Our Churches and Chapels • Atticus

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