Foss

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  • n. Alternative spelling of fosse.
  • n. Waterfall (permanent flow of water over the edge of a cliff).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as force.
  • n. A ditch; a canal; a stream or river artificially made or enlarged.
  • n. Specifically In fortification, a hollow place, ditch, or moat, commonly full of water, lying between the scarp and the counterscarp below the rampart, and turning round a fortified place or a post that is to be defended. See cut under castle.
  • n. In anatomy, same as fossa.
  • n. A simplified spelling of fosse.
  • Word Usage
    "There Jane's parents lay, not in a grave to themselves, but buried amidst the nameless dead, in that part of the ground reserved for those who can purchase no more than a portion in the foss which is filled when its occupants reach statutable distance from the surface."
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