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Fox
Foxes are small-to-medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. Foxes have a flattened skull, upright triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or brush).
Twelve species belong to the monophyletic “true foxes” group of genus Vulpes. Approximately another 25 current or extinct species are always or sometimes called foxes; these foxes are either part of the paraphyletic group of the South American foxes, or of the outlying group, which consists of bat-eared fox, gray fox, and island fox. Foxes live on every continent except Antarctica. By far the most common and widespread species of fox is the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) with about 47 recognized subspecies. The global distribution of foxes, together with their widespread reputation for cunning, has contributed to their prominence in popular culture and folklore in many societies around the world. The hunting of foxes with packs of hounds, long an established pursuit in Europe, especially in the British Isles, was exported by European settlers to various parts of the New World.
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Vixen (noun)
A female fox.
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Vixen (noun)
A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
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Fox (noun)
A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.
“the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”
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Fox (noun)
Any of numerous Wikipedia article on the fox).
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Fox (noun)
The fur of a fox.
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Fox (noun)
A fox terrier.
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Fox (noun)
The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, ver=160924, so called from its yellow color.
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Fox (noun)
A cunning person.
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Fox (noun)
A physically attractive man or woman.
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Fox (noun)
A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
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Fox (noun)
A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
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Fox (noun)
The fourteenth Lenormand card.
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Fox (noun)
A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
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Fox (verb)
To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
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Fox (verb)
To confuse or baffle (someone).
“This crossword puzzle has completely foxed me.”
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Fox (verb)
To act slyly or craftily.
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Fox (verb)
To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity.
“The pages of the book show distinct foxing.”
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Fox (verb)
To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
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Fox (verb)
To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
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Fox (verb)
To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
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Fox (verb)
To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
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Vixen (noun)
a female fox.
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Vixen (noun)
a spirited or quarrelsome woman
“an outrageous little shaven-headed vixen”
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Fox (noun)
a member of a North American people formerly living in southern Wisconsin, and now mainly in Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas.
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Fox (noun)
the Algonquian language of the Fox, now almost extinct.
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Fox (verb)
baffle or deceive (someone)
“the abbreviation foxed me completely”
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Fox (verb)
behave in a cunning or sly way
“to his mind everybody was dodging and foxing”
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Fox (adjective)
relating to the Fox or their language.