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Webster 1913 Edition


Foe

Foe

(fō)
,
Noun.
[OE.
fo
,
fa
, AS.
fāh
hostile; prob. akin to E.
fiend
. √81. See
Fiend
, and cf.
Feud
a quarrel.]
1.
One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy.
A man’s
foes
shall be they of his own household.
Matt. x. 36
2.
An enemy in war; a hostile army.
3.
One who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill-wisher; as, a foe to religion.
A
foe
to received doctrines.
I. Watts

Foe

,
Verb.
T.
To treat as an enemy.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Foe

FOE

,
Noun.
fo.
[See Fiend.]
1.
An enemy; one who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge or malice against another.
A man's foes shall be they of his own household. Matt. 10.
2.
An enemy in war; one of a nation at war with another, whether he entertains enmity against the opposing nation or not; an adversary.
Either three years famine, or three months to be destroyed before they foes. 1Chron. 21.
3.
Foe, like enemy, in the singular, is used to denote an opposing army, or nation at war.
4.
An opponent; an enemy; one who opposes any thing in principle; an ill-wisher; as a foe to religion; a foe to virtue; a foe to the measures of the administration.

FOE

,
Verb.
T.
To treat as an enemy. Obs.

Definition 2024


föe

föe

See also: foe, FoE, FOE, and fo'e

Drehu

Noun

föe

  1. woman

References

  • Claire Moyse-Faurie, Le drehu: langue de Lifou (îles Loyauté) : phonologie, morphologie, syntaxe (1983)