Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Foist

Foist (foist) , noun

[Old French fuste stick, boat, from Latin fustis cudgel. Compare 1st Fust.]

A light and fast-sailing ship. [Obsolete] — Beau. & Fl

Foist , transitive verb

[Compare OD. vysten to fizzle, Dutch veesten, English fizz, fitchet, bullfist.]

To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in.
Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in abuses and corruption. — R. Carew
When a scripture has been corrupted... by a supposititious foisting of some words in. — South

Foist , noun

1.
A foister; a sharper. [Obsolete] — B. Jonson
2.
A trick or fraud; a swindle. [Obsolete] — B. Jonson