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Fog   /fɑg/  /fɔg/   Listen
noun
Fog  n.  (Agric.)
(a)
A second growth of grass; aftergrass.
(b)
Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter; called also foggage. (Prov.Eng.) Note: Sometimes called, in New England, old tore. In Scotland, fog is a general name for moss.



Fog  n.  
1.
Watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain. See Cloud.
2.
A state of mental confusion.
3.
(Photog.) Cloudiness or partial opacity of those parts of a developed film or a photograph which should be clear.
Fog alarm, Fog bell, Fog horn, etc., a bell, horn, whistle or other contrivance that sounds an alarm, often automatically, near places of danger where visible signals would be hidden in thick weather.
Fog bank, a mass of fog resting upon the sea, and resembling distant land.
Fog ring, a bank of fog arranged in a circular form, often seen on the coast of Newfoundland.



verb
Fog  v. t.  (Agric.) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.



Fog  v. t.  (past & past part. fogged; pres. part. fogging)  
1.
To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.
2.
(Photog.) To render semiopaque or cloudy, as a negative film, by exposure to stray light, too long an exposure to the developer, etc.



Fog  v. i.  To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog. (Obs.) "Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee?"



Fog  v. i.  (Photog.) To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.






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"Fog" Quotes from Famous Books



... (we were wondering, as we walked to the station) that these nights of pearly wet Long Island fog make the spiders so active? The sun was trying to break through the mist, and all the way down the road trees, bushes, and grass were spangled with cob-webs, shining with tiny pricks and gems of moisture. These damp, mildewy nights that irritate us and bring that queer soft grayish fur ...
— Plum Pudding - Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned • Christopher Morley

... The Durande was lost! Presently, amid the details of the story—the Durande had been wrecked in a fog on the terrible rocks known as the Douvres—one thing emerged: the engines were intact. To rescue the Durande was impossible; but the machinery might still be saved. These engines were unique. To construct others like them, money was wanting; ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

... handling the shields, thrusting out the charioteer, destroying the hosts.[7] As high, as thick, as strong, as steady, as long as the sail-tree of some huge [W.2623.] prime ship was the straight spout of dark blood which arose right on high from the very ridgepole of his crown, so that a black fog of witchery was made thereof like to the smoke from a king's hostel what time the king comes to be ministered to at nightfall ...
— The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge • Unknown

... so vast and fierce, that they seemed to issue from the bosom of the earth. The heavens, alternately cloudy or serene, had given no previous sign of the approaching calamity; but a new source of suffering followed it, in a thick fog, which obscured the light of the day, and added to the darkness of night. Irritating to the eyes, injurious to the respiration, fetid, and immoveable, it hung over the two Calabrias for more than twenty days,—an occasion of melancholy, ...
— The Book of Enterprise and Adventure - Being an Excitement to Reading. For Young People. A New and Condensed Edition. • Anonymous

... mechanical, like all the little chap's existence up to this point. Poor little chap! here Sir Tom stopped in his course of thought, impeded by a weight at his heart which he could not shake off; nor could he see the blurred and vague landscape round him—something more blinding even than the fog had got into ...
— Sir Tom • Mrs. Oliphant


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