| civet cat | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. bassariscus astutus, bassarisk, cacomistle, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail | raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings. |
| ~ procyonid | plantigrade carnivorous mammals. |
| ~ bassariscus, genus bassariscus | cacomistles. |
| n. (animal) | 2. civet, civet cat | cat-like mammal typically secreting musk used in perfumes. |
| ~ family viverridae, family viverrinae, viverridae, viverrinae | genets; civets; mongooses. |
| ~ viverrine, viverrine mammal | small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World. |
| ~ large civet, viverra zibetha | common civet of India and southeast Asia. |
| ~ small civet, viverricula indica, viverricula malaccensis | a common civet of southeast Asia. |
| ~ arctictis bintourong, bearcat, binturong | arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair. |
| ~ cryptoprocta, genus cryptoprocta | large primitive cat-like carnivores inhabiting forests of Madagascar. |
| ~ fanaloka, fossa fossa | civet of Madagascar. |
| ~ banded palm civet, hemigalus hardwickii | an East Indian civet. |
| ~ palm cat, palm civet | spotted or striped arboreal civet of southeast Asia and East Indies. |
| fox | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. fox | alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs. |
| ~ canid, canine | any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ prairie fox, vulpes velox, kit fox | small grey fox of the plains of western North America. |
| ~ kit fox, vulpes macrotis | 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. |
| ~ gray fox, grey fox, urocyon cinereoargenteus | dark grey American fox; from Central America through southern United States. |
| n. (person) | 2. dodger, fox, slyboots | a shifty deceptive person. |
| ~ beguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, cheat, slicker | someone who leads you to believe something that is not true. |
| n. (substance) | 3. fox | the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox. |
| ~ fur, pelt | the dressed hairy coat of a mammal. |
| n. (person) | 4. charles james fox, fox | English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806). |
| ~ national leader, solon, statesman | a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs. |
| n. (person) | 5. fox, george fox | English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691). |
| ~ religious person | a person who manifests devotion to a deity. |
| n. (person) | 6. fox | a member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River. |
| ~ algonquian, algonquin | a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast. |
| n. (communication) | 7. fox | the Algonquian language of the Fox. |
| ~ algonquian language, algonquian, algonquin | family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains. |
| v. (social) | 8. flim-flam, fob, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick | deceive somebody.; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week" |
| ~ cozen, deceive, delude, lead on | be false to; be dishonest with. |
| ~ snooker | fool or dupe.; "He was snookered by the con-man's smooth talk" |
| v. (cognition) | 9. bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw | be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" |
| ~ demoralize | confuse or put into disorder.; "the boss's behavior demoralized everyone in the office" |
| ~ baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, amaze, stupefy, gravel, vex, pose, stick, beat, get | be a mystery or bewildering to.; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" |
| ~ disconcert, flurry, confuse, put off | cause to feel embarrassment.; "The constant attention of the young man confused her" |
| ~ disorient, disorientate | cause to be lost or disoriented. |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (change) | 10. fox | become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots. |
| ~ spot | become spotted.; "This dress spots quickly" |
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