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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. See Fiend, and cf. Feud a quarrel.

2. One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy. A man's foes shall be they of his own household. Matt. x. 36

3. An enemy in war; a hostile army.

4. One who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill- wisher; as, a foe to religion. A foe to received doctrines. I. Watts

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To treat as an enemy. [Obs.] Spenser.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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