The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foal \Foal\ (f[=o]l), n. [OE. fole, AS. fola; akin to OHG. folo, G. fohlen, Goth. fula, Icel. foli, Sw. f[*a]le, Gr. pw^los, L. pullus a young animal. Cf. Filly, Poultry, Pullet.] (Zo["o].) The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equid[ae]); a colt; a filly.
Foal teeth (Zo["o]l.), the first set of teeth of a horse.
In foal, With foal, being with young; pregnant; -- said of a mare or she ass.
Usage examples of "with foal".
It made a picture, and it showed the Hinny, as she had been in life, great with foal, grazing near the wood.
Whinney was heavy with foal and had lived with a wild herd who understood the dangers of predators.
Geldings meandered placidly among the well-grown colts and fillies racing around their mothers, while dozens of mares heavy with foal plodded the sun-baked paths back to the stables.
She's with foal by that nasty bay stallion of Lord Temperance, so see you treat her gently.
There were at least a hundred animals in the herd newly born foals with legs too long for their fluffy bodies and w th smudged chocolate-coloured stripes not yet set into definite patterns, staying close to their dams and staring around at the world with huge dark apprehensive eyes, older foals quick and surefooted as they chased each other in circles through the trees, the breeding mares, sleek and glossy, with stiff upstanding manes and pricked ears, some of them huge with foal, milk already swelling in their black udders.