(n.) A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.
(n.) The European dragonet.
(n.) The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.
(n.) A sly, cunning fellow.
(n.) Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.
(n.) A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
(n.) A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies.
(n.) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
(n.) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
(n.) To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
(v. i.) To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fox was 30 years old - 70% of Parkinson's sufferers are over 50.
(2) Alec played a role in the resignation of the UK defence secretary Liam Fox last year over his close ties to his friend Adam Werritty.
(3) When Fox woke up one morning in 1990 and noticed his little finger shaking, he thought it was a side effect of a hangover.
(4) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(5) Cable news channels like Fox News and CNN carried the address, and some of the networks carried it on their digital platforms, but a network insider told Politico on Thursday the speech’s content was too “overtly political” to broadcast.
(6) After distribution, 81% of foxes inspected were positive for tetracycline, a biomarker included in the vaccine bait and, other than one rabid fox detected close to the periphery of the treated area, no case of rabies, either in foxes or in domestic livestock, has been reported in the area.
(7) Asked if France had “jumped the gun and didn’t tell us”, Fox said he was notaware of anyone in government who knew about the impending airstrikes.
(8) Whenever Fox meets someone for the first time, he slips on this look as instinctively as others shuck on a jacket when they leave the house.
(9) Educated at Imperial College London, he trained at the contractors Freeman Fox, but in 1978 he turned freelance as a transport consultant, setting up his own firm: Steer Davies Gleave.
(10) Sanders, the Vermont senator and self-described democratic socialist, first answered questions from Fox News anchor Bret Baier over his comments in Sunday’s debate that white people “don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto”.
(11) These results combined with absorption studies suggested a close relationship between fox and dog, but different number and morphology of chromosomes, immunoelectrophoretic patterns of serum proteins, and disparities of the transplantation antigens proved that the fox is a species quite separate from the dog.
(12) 4.28pm ET: Oh hey, Fox News finds time in its busy schedule to cover the rally.
(13) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
(14) Fox met his wife, Tracy, on the set of Family Ties, the 80s sitcom that launched his career and in which she played his on-screen girlfriend.
(15) Werritty, 33, a Scottish Tory who first met Fox when the defence secretary went to speak at Edinburgh University – where Werritty was a student of public policy – had arrived in the emirate a few days earlier to set up meetings for his "boss".
(16) Kelly reportedly spoke with lawyers investigating claims of sexual harassment by former Fox chairman Roger Ailes, who left the network following allegations by several women of years of abuse.
(17) The highest 3H-thymidine incorporation in cultures of dog lymphocytes was observed at day 3, while in those of fox at day 2, incubated either at 37 degrees C or at 39 degrees C. Lymphocytes cultured at 39 degrees C incorporated more tritiated thymidine than did cells cultured at 37 degrees C. The stimulation index (SI) of dog peripheral blood lymphocytes to both mitogens concanavalin A (Con A) and leucoagglutinin (LA) was in a similar range, while pokeweed mitogen (PWM) showed a weaker but significant stimulatory action.
(18) The Republican presidential candidate then told Fox News that Amazon is “getting away with murder tax-wise” and has a “huge antitrust problem because he’s [Bezos] controlling so much”.
(19) Although antibodies against selected pathogens were present, no clinical indications of disease were observed in these fox populations.
(20) In a speech to Atlantic Bridge members in New York in November 2002, Fox warned "the natural desire to avoid conflict has been reinforced by an innate pacificism in many sections of western society, especially in continental Europe".
Werewolf
Definition:
(n.) A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct.
Example Sentences:
(1) He just look sideways and for some reason it’s funny.” But Clement himself names Rhys Darby, aka the Conchords’ manager, Murray, who plays a werewolf in Shadows, as the funniest man he has ever worked with – even if he does appear in “too many ads”.
(2) It sounded like a werewolf exorcising a roomful of crucified sopranos.)
(3) It brings to mind the image of a werewolf not being able to stop his transformation at full moon, but do we really believe this?
(4) Hostel is undoubtedly the most unpleasant film I have ever seen,” he said, while Roth’s Netflix series Hemlock Grove “made An American Werewolf in London look like Mary Poppins”.
(5) A semi-rotted werewolf hangs around by the door, with a hole blowtorched right through his leg.
(6) They seem to have a werewolf smoking a pipe as the logo - perhaps a reference to the wolf who nursed Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome - but why the reference to Bob Marley air freshener?"
(7) The actor – known to Twi-hards for his role as werewolf Jacob Black in the hit movie series – is joining the BBC3 show for its second series.
(8) Five movie repeat An American Werewolf in London averaged 400,000 viewers, 6% of the audience, between 11pm and 12.45am.
(9) 8.07pm GMT Out they come, with Susanna’s minty fringed dress clashing horribly with her gravy tan, and Kevin dressed as a camp werewolf.
(10) Updated at 8.43pm GMT 8.39pm GMT Luke’s singing Moondance, presumably before it’s what he does right before he turns into a werewolf each night, which he does right before all the other werewolves take the piss out of him for looking a bit like Mick Hucknall.
(11) Just shoot me…" Fast-forward a few months and Slade would be found eating his words ("I think I've eaten more than enough humble pie," he told me later), stating that those comments were made before he'd ever read Stephenie Meyer's novels about a young woman whose affections are divided between a vampire and a werewolf, or seen the blockbusting movies, all of which turned out to be far more interesting, intelligent and inspiring than he had ever imagined.
(12) I hope it turns out that Lara's been a werewolf all this time – but I suspect he means that her character and spirit come under such attack that she's reduced to fight-or-flight responses.
(13) In 2007 it was all about Blake Commagere and AJ Olson's vampire, zombie and werewolf biting games, which required players to recruit Facebook friends into their monster covens.
(14) Ultimate Werewolf Monsters are stalking the village.
(15) He is a 28 years old man, imprisoned for deadly violence, who has been showing, for many years, the belief of being transformed into a werewolf during depersonalization episodes when he presents a lycanthropic behaviour.
(16) In the morning, the people wake to find one of their number slain and vote to execute another player as a suspected werewolf.
(17) Dan and Kevin Hageman, who wrote forthcoming CGI feature Hotel Transylvania, about a rooming house in which Frankenstein, the Mummy, Dracula and the Werewolf hide out after the 21st century casts them into irrelevance, are penning the script.