Defn: With a push or thrust. [Obs.]
FOISON
Foi"son, n. Etym: [F. foison, fr. L. fusio a pouring, effusion. See
Fusion.]
Defn: Rich harvest; plenty; abundance. [Archaic] Lowell.
That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison.
Shak.
FOIST
Foist (foist), n. Etym: [OF. fuste stick, boat, fr. L. fustis cudgel.
Cf. 1st Fust.]
Defn: A light and fast-sailing ship. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
FOIST
Foist, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Foisting.] Etym:
[Cf. OD. vysten to fizzle, D. veesten, E. fizz, fitchet, bullfist.]
Defn: To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; — usually followed by in. Lest negligence or partiality might admit or fois in abuses corruption. R. Carew. When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in. South.
FOIST
Foist, n.
1. A foister; a sharper. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
2. A trick or fraud; a swindle. [Obs.] B. Jonson.