The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foule \Foul"e\, adv.
Foully. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
a. (obsolete form of foul English)
n. A light woollen fulled cloth.
Wikipedia
Foule (first name and dates unknown) was an English cricketer who played in first-class cricket for Caterham Cricket Club and Surrey during the 1760s. He is recorded in the Caterham v. Bourn match at Westerham in June 1768 and made the top score of 33 in Caterham's second innings total of 150, enabling them to win the match by 14 runs.
As Foule had established his reputation by 1768, he must have been active for some years previously and his career may have begun in the 1750s. He is not mentioned in 1770s reports and very few players were mentioned by name in contemporary reports before then. There are no other references to Foule.
Usage examples of "foule".
La foule encombrait les abords du Palais-Bourbon, saluant de ses acclamations et des cris de Vive la Charte!
La foule des truands poussant de grandes acclamations se pressa au bas pour y monter.
De temps en temps cette clameur et ce bruit redoublaient, le courant qui poussait toute cette foule vers le grand escalier rebroussait, se troublait, tourbillonnait.
Elle est couverte de la foule diversement coloree des baigneurs et des baigneuses.
England, stowed in quarters in ye ship they now gott her out and sett their carpenters to worke to trime her up: but being much brused and shatered in ye ship with foule weather, they saw she sould be longe in mending.
Metellius, the foule churl, the swine, That with a staff bereft his wife of life For she drank wine, though I had been his wife, Never should he have daunted me from drink: And, after wine, of Venus most I think.
As when a Faulcon hath with nimble flightFlowne at a flush of Ducks, foreby the brooke,The trembling foule dismayd with dreadfull sightOf death, the which them almost ouertooke,Doe hide themselues from her astonying looke,Amongst the flags and couert round about.
Great troupes of people traueild thitherwardBoth day and night, of each degree and place,But few returned, hauing scaped hard,With balefull beggerie, or foule disgrace,Which euer after in most wretched case,Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay.
And while he busy was, this fiendly wretch, This false canon (the foule fiend him fetch), Out of his bosom took a beechen coal, In which full subtifly was made a hole, And therein put was of silver limaile* *filings An ounce, and stopped was withoute fail The hole with wax, to keep the limaile in.
W Ho now does follow the foule Blatant Beast,Whilest Calidore does follow that faire Mayd,Vnmyndfull of his vow and high beheast,Which by the Faery Queene was on him layd,That he should neuer leaue, nor be delaydFrom chacing him, till he had it attchieued?
Whom when Pyrrochles saw, inflam'd with rage,That sire he foule bespake, Thou dotard vile,That with thy brutenesse shendst thy comely age,Abandone soone, I read, the caitiue spoileOf that same outcast carkasse, that erewhileMade it selfe famous through false trechery,And crownd his coward crest with knightly stile.
Metellius, the foule cherl, the swyn, That with a staf birafte his wyf hire lyf, For she drank wyn, thogh I hadde been his wyf, He sholde nat han daunted me fro drynke.
The contrarie of al this is wilfulnesse: Why grucchen heere his cosyn and his wyf That goode Arcite, of chivalrie flour, Departed is with duetee and honour Out of this foule prisoun of this lyf?
And lastly in approuance of thy wrong,To shew such faintnesse and foule cowardize,Is greatest shame: for oft it falles, that strongAnd valiant knights doe rashly enterprize,Either for fame, or else for exercize,A wrongfull quarrell to maintaine by fight.
Then beautie, which was made to representThe great Creatours owne resemblance bright,Vnto abuse of lawlesse lust was lent,And made the baite of bestiall delight:Then faire grew foule, and foule grew faire in sight,And that which wont to vanquish God and man,Was made the vassall of the victors might.