He did at the Dog give me, and some other friends of his, his foy,
he being to set sail to-day.
Pepys.
||Foy`er" (?), n. [F., fr. LL. focarium fireplace. See Focus, n.] 1. A
||lobby in a theater; a greenroom.
2. The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
Knight.
Foy"son (?), n. [Obs.] See Foison.
Fo"zi*ness (?), n. The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness.
[Scot.]
[The Whigs'] foziness can no longer be concealed.
Blackwood's.