Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Foxed \Foxed\, a.
   1. Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the
      paper of books or engravings.

   2. Repaired by foxing; as, foxed boots.

Fox \Fox\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foxed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Foxing}.] [See {Fox}, n., cf. Icel. fox imposture.]
   1. To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.

            I drank . . . so much wine that I was almost foxed.
                                                  --Pepys.

   2. To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.

   3. To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper
      leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.