fox

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: fox

1	n	alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs
2	n v	a shifty deceptive person deceive somebody
3	v	become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: fox

Types:: show 11 types...; hide 11 types...; vixen
a female fox; Reynard
a conventional name for a fox used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox'; Vulpes vulpes, red fox
the common Old World fox; having reddish-brown fur; commonly considered a single circumpolar species; Vulpes fulva, red fox
New World fox; often considered the same species as the Old World fox; Vulpes velox, kit fox, prairie fox
small grey fox of the plains of western North America; Vulpes macrotis, kit fox
small grey fox of southwestern United States; may be a subspecies of Vulpes velox; Alopex lagopus, Arctic fox, white fox
thickly-furred fox of Arctic regions; brownish in summer and white in winter; Urocyon cinereoargenteus, gray fox, grey fox
dark grey American fox; from Central America through southern United States; black fox
red fox in the color phase when its pelt is mostly black; silver fox
red fox in the color phase when its pelt is tipped with white; blue fox
a variety of Arctic fox having a pale grey winter coat

Type of:: canid, canine
any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles

Type of:: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

Synonyms:: flim-flam, fob, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick

Synonyms:: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fuddle, throw

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; demoralize
confuse or put into disorder; amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex
be a mystery or bewildering to; disorient, disorientate
cause to be lost or disoriented; mix up, stump
cause to be perplexed or confounded; riddle
set a difficult problem or riddle; elude, escape
be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by

Type of:: be
have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)

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