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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 (see the Wikipedia article on the fox).
▸ 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: (slang, figurative) A cunning person.
▸ noun: (slang, figurative) A physically attractive man or woman.
▸ noun: (slang, figurative) A person with reddish brown hair, usually 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: 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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