Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
{Foul anchor}. (Naut.) See under {Anchor}.
{Foul ball} (Baseball), a ball that first strikes the ground
outside of the foul ball lines, or rolls outside of
certain limits.
{Foul ball lines} (Baseball), lines from the home base,
through the first and third bases, to the boundary of the
field.
{Foul berth} (Naut.), a berth in which a ship is in danger of
fouling another vesel.
{Foul bill}, or {Foul bill of health}, a certificate, duly
authenticated, that a ship has come from a place where a
contagious disorder prevails, or that some of the crew are
infected.
{Foul copy}, a rough draught, with erasures and corrections;
-- opposed to fair or clean copy. ``Some writers boast of
negligence, and others would be ashamed to show their foul
copies.'' --Cowper.
{Foul proof}, an uncorrected proof; a proof containing an
excessive quantity of errors.
{Foul strike} (Baseball), a strike by the batsman when any
part of his person is outside of the lines of his
position.
{To fall foul}, to fall out; to quarrel. [Obs.] ``If they be
any ways offended, they fall foul.'' --Burton.
{To} {fall, or run}, {foul of}. See under {Fall}.
{To make foul water}, to sail in such shallow water that the
ship's keel stirs the mud at the bottom.