Obs. rare1. [Origin unknown; the meaning is clear from Isidore, Etym., XII. xxix., where the L. word is vulpes.] A fox.

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1567.  J. Maplet, A Greene Forest, or a Naturall Historie, 86. The Fleck … saith Isidore … is naturally subtile, and hath many fetches to deceiue one.

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