ppl. a. [f. FOX v. + -ED1.] In senses of the vb.
1. Intoxicated, drunk, stupefied.
1611. [see COLUMBERED].
1673. Shadwell, Epsom-Wells, IV. Wks. 1720, II. 248. Udsooks, I begin to be fox’d!
1896. Quarterly Review, CLXXXIII. Jan., 16. Poor Will Symons, who had often seen him ‘foxed’ amid the most undignified surroundings, and who might at this very time have surprised him in still more discreditable situations, is made to feel that he now belongs to quite a different ‘set’ from that in which moves prosperous Mr. Pepys.
2. Trimmed with fox-fur. In quot. punningly.
1609. W. M., Man in Moone (1849), 26. His gowne is throughly foxt, yet he is sober.
3. Of the leaves of books, also of timber: Discolored by decay; stained with brownish-yellow spots.
1847. Halliwell, s.v. Timber is said to be foxed, when it becomes discoloured in consequence of incipient decay. Warw.
1848. Hare, Guesses, Ser. II. 335. You do not form your conception of a cup from a broken one, nor that of a book from a torn or foxt and dog’s-eared volume.
1885. A. Dorson, At Sign Lyre, 83.
| And the Burton I bought for a florin, | |
| And the Rabelais foxed and flea’d.— | |
| For others I never have opened, | |
| But those are the books I read. |
4. Of beer: Turned sour.
1743. Lond. & Country Brew., II. 106. The evil stinking Scent that arises therefrom, which has brought it under the Denomination of being foxed.
5. Of a boot: (see FOX v. 6, FOXING 2.)
1880. Antrim & Down Gloss., s.v. Women’s cloth boots are foxed when they have a binding of leather on the cloth all round next the sole.
