The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foison \Foi"son\, n. [F. foison, fr. L. fusio a pouring,
effusion. See Fusion.]
Rich harvest; plenty; abundance. [Archaic]
--Lowell.
That from the seedness the bare fallow brings
To teeming foison.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) an abundance, a rich supply of. 2 (context chiefly Scotland English) strength, power
Usage examples of "foison".
Thither the extremely large wains bring foison of the fields, flaskets of cauliflowers, floats of spinach, pineapple chunks, Rangoon beans, strikes of tomatoes, drums of figs, drills of Swedes, spherical potatoes and tallies of iridescent kale, York and Savoy, and trays of onions, pearls of the earth, and punnets of mushrooms and custard marrows and fat vetches and bere and rape and red green yellow brown russet sweet big bitter ripe pomellated apples and chips of strawberries and sieves of gooseberries, pulpy and pelurious, and strawberries fit for princes and raspberries from their canes.
Sage had told them thereof, that their travel and toil should be stayed there awhile, and that there they should winter, because of the bread which they could make them of the chestnuts, and the plenty of walnuts, and that withal there was foison of venison.
Was he the only one who felt the challenge offered by the maddening fertility and foison of the hot sun-dazzled earth?
Champignac, and his chef--everybody with foison of compliments and pretty speeches--plaguing poor me, who longed to be rid of them, and was thinking every moment of the time of mon pauvre prisonnier.