[f. as prec. + -SHIP.]

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  1.  The character or qualities of a fox.

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1607.  Shaks., Cor., IV. ii. 18.

                    Had’st thou Foxship
To banish him that strooke more blowes for Rome
Then thou hast spoken words.

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  2.  As a mock title.

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1863.  W. Lancaster, Praeterita, 41.

        But if I meet thy foxship afterdays,
With half an arm to raise and half a spear,
I’ll mar that serpent face and false gray smile,
And leave thy surgy rock without a king.

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1870.  Standard, 13 Dec. His foxship was ‘run into’ between Culgaith and Longwathby.

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