FOUSIL. The name of a public house, where the
Eccentrics assemble in May's Buildings, St. Martin's Lane.

Fox. A sharp, cunning fellow. Also an old term for a
sword, probably a rusty one, or else from its being dyed red
with blood; some say this name alluded to certain swords
of remarkable good temper, or metal, marked with the
figure of a fox, probably the sign, or rebus, of the maker.