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A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.
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A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.
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A carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar, Cryptoprocta ferox.
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A ditch or moat.
Examples of foss in a Sentence
The chief industrial establishments are iron foundries, railway and motor engineering works, breweries, flour-mills, tanneries and manufactories of confectionery, artificial manure, &c. There is water communication by the Ouse with the Humber, and by the Foss Navigation to the N.E.
See Holliday's Life (1797); Campbell's Chief Justices; Foss's Judges; Greville's Memoirs, passim; Horace Walpole's Letters; and other memoirs and works on the period.
The descent of the priest into the sacrificial foss symbolized the death of Attis, the withering of the vegetation of Mother Earth; his bath of blood and emergence the restoration of Attis, the rebirth of vegetation.
Bliss; Foss, Lives of the Judges.
Woolrych, The Life of Sir Edward Coke (1826); Foss, Lives of the Judges; Campbell, Lives of the Chief Justices; also English Law.
Richard Foss, Father Christmas draws the winning raffle ticket at Christmas Festival of Local Foods.
Other points of interest are Malham Cove and tarn, the ravine of Gordale Scar, the cliffs of Attermyre, Giggleswick Scar and Castleberg (the last immediately above Settle itself), the Clapham and Weathercote caves, the chasm of Helln Pot and the waterfall of Stainforth Foss.
She is traditionally supposed to have resided at the tufa waterfall still known as Janet 's Foss.
The most noteworthy waterfalls are - Scale Force (Dano-Norwegian fors, foss), besidesCrummock, Lodore near Derwentwater, Dungeon Gill Force, beside Langdale, Dalegarth Force in Eskdale, Aira near Ullswater, sung by Wordsworth, Stock Gill Force and Rydal Falls near Ambleside.
It lies in a plain watered by the river Ouse, at the junction of the Foss stream with the main river.
The castle stands in the angle between the Ouse and the Foss immediately above their junction.