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▸ noun: Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera.
▸ noun: The fur of a fox.
▸ noun: A fox terrier.
▸ noun: The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
▸ noun: (figurative) A cunning person.
▸ noun: (slang, figurative) A physically attractive person, typically a woman.
▸ noun: (slang, figurative) A person with reddish brown hair, typically a woman.
▸ noun: (nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
▸ noun: (mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
▸ noun: A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
▸ noun: (cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
▸ noun: (military, aviation) Air-to-air weapon launched.
▸ verb: (transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
▸ verb: (transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
▸ verb: (transitive) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
▸ verb: (transitive) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
▸ verb: (transitive) To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
▸ noun: (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter F.
▸ noun: A surname transferred from the common noun derived from the name of the animal.
▸ noun: A male given name.
▸ noun: (US, broadcasting, uncountable) Fox Broadcasting Company, a large television network from the USA.
▸ noun: A placename
▸ noun: A number of places in the United States:
▸ noun: A census-designated place in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska.
▸ noun: A river in Wisconsin and Illinois, United States, a tributary to the Illinois River.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Stone County, Arkansas.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Grant County, Indiana.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Estill County, Kentucky.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Roseau County, Minnesota.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Carbon County, Montana.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Pickaway County, Ohio.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Carter County, Oklahoma.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon.
▸ noun: A number of townships in the United States, listed under Fox Township.
▸ noun: A locality in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia, Australia.
▸ noun: (soccer) Someone connected with Leicester City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
▸ noun: Ellipsis of Fox Tribe.
▸ noun: Ellipsis of Fox language.
▸ noun: (dated) Ellipsis of Fox Indian.: A member of the Outagamie or Meskwaki, a Native American people.
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