fox

1. (n) A small-to-medium-sized canine mammal, related to dogs and wolves, with a flattened skull, upright triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail, of the following groups: 2. (n) Any member of the genus Vulpes; a true fox. 3. (n) (in particular) The red fox, a small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes) with red or silver fur. 4. (n) (uncountable) The fur of a fox. 5. (n) (figurative) A cunning person. 6. (n) (slang, figurative) A physically attractive person, typically a woman. 7. (n) (slang, figurative) A person with reddish brown hair, typically a woman. 8. (v) (transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity. 9. (v) (transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone). 10. (v) (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily. 11. (v) (transitive, dated) To cheat or rob. 12. (v) (transitive) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment. 13. (v) (intransitive) To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting. 14. (v) (transitive) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink. 15. (n) (nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets. 16. (n) (mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it. 17. (n) A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport. 18. (n) (cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card. 19. (n) (military, aviation) Air-to-air weapon launched. 20. (n) (chiefly philosophy) Someone who fuses many different influences and concepts in their philosophy or worldview. 21. (n) Other canines that resemble true foxes, of the genera Cerdocyon, Lycalopex, Otocyon, and Urocyon. 22. (n) A fox terrier. 23. (n) The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color. 24. (v) (intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.) 25. (v) (transitive) To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of. 26. (n) (obsolete) A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox. 27. (n) (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter F. 28. (n) A surname transferred from the common noun derived from the name of the animal. 29. (n) A male given name. 30. (n) (US, broadcasting, uncountable) Fox Broadcasting Company, a large television network from the USA. 31. (n) A placename 32. (n) A number of places in the United States: 33. (n) A census-designated place in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska. 34. (n) A river in Wisconsin and Illinois, United States, a tributary to the Illinois River. 35. (n) An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Stone County, Arkansas. 36. (n) An unincorporated community in Grant County, Indiana. 37. (n) An unincorporated community in Estill County, Kentucky. 38. (n) An unincorporated community in Roseau County, Minnesota. 39. (n) An unincorporated community in Carbon County, Montana. 40. (n) An unincorporated community in Pickaway County, Ohio. 41. (n) An unincorporated community in Carter County, Oklahoma. 42. (n) An unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon. 43. (n) A number of townships in the United States, listed under Fox Township. 44. (n) A locality in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia, Australia. 45. (n) (soccer) Someone connected with Leicester City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc. 46. (n) (dated) Ellipsis of Fox Indian (“a member of the Outagamie or Meskwaki, a Native American people”). 47. (n) Ellipsis of Fox Tribe. 48. (n) Ellipsis of Fox language. 49. (n) (genetics, biochemistry) Acronym of forkhead box protein.