These are the meanings of the letters FOXIE when you unscramble them.
- Fie (interj.)
An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See Fy.
- Fix (a.)
Fixed; solidified.
- Fix (n.)
A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.
- Fix (n.)
fettling.
- Fix (v. i.)
To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- Fix (v. i.)
To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- Fix (v. t.)
To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.
- Fix (v. t.)
To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.
- Fix (v. t.)
To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.
- Fix (v. t.)
To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.
- Fix (v. t.)
To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light.
- Fix (v. t.)
To transfix; to pierce.
- Foe (n.)
An enemy in war; a hostile army.
- Foe (n.)
One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy.
- Foe (n.)
One who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill-wisher; as, a foe to religion.
- Foe (v. t.)
To treat as an enemy.
- Fox (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.
- Fox (n.)
A sly, cunning fellow.
- Fox (n.)
A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
- Fox (n.)
A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies.
- Fox (n.)
Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.
- Fox (n.)
The European dragonet.
- Fox (n.)
The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.
- Fox (n.)
To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
- Fox (n.)
To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
- Fox (n.)
To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
- Fox (v. i.)
To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.