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Webster 1913 Edition

Vixen

Vix′en

,

Noun.

[AS.

fixen

a she-fox, for

fyxen

, fem. of

fox

. See

.]

1.

A female fox.

[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

2.

A cross, ill-tempered person; – formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman.

Barrow.

She was a

vixen

when she went to school.

Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Vixen

VIX'EN

,

Noun.

[vixen is a she fox, or a fox's cub.

A froward, turbulent, quarrelsome woman.