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Fen n. Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh. "'Mid reedy fens wide spread." Note: Fen is used adjectively with the sense of belonging to, or of the nature of, a fen or fens.

Fen boat, a boat of light draught used in marshes.

Fen duck (Zool.), a wild duck inhabiting fens; the shoveler. (Prov. Eng.)

Fen fowl (Zool.), any water fowl that frequent fens.

Fen goose (Zool.), the graylag goose of Europe. (Prov. Eng.)

Fen land, swamp land.

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... he sought the fleece of gold, Or change from man to beast three years entire, As King Nebuchadnezzar did of old; Or else have times as shameful and as bad As Trojan folk for ravished Helen had; Or gulfed with Proserpine and Tantalus Let hell's deep fen devour him dolorous, With worse to bear than Job's worst sufferance, Bound in his prison-maze with Daedalus, Who could wish evil ...

— Poems & Ballads (Second Series) - Swinburne's Poems Volume III • Algernon Charles Swinburne

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... thou fele al the peynes of age whylst yynge, 515 Unmanned, uneyned, exclooded aie the lyghte, Thie senses, lyche thieselfe, enwrapped yn nyghte, A scoff to foemen & to beastes a pheere; Maie furched levynne onne thie head alyghte, Maie on thee falle the fhuyr of the unweere; 520 Fen vaipoures blaste thie everiche manlie powere, Maie thie bante boddie ...

— The Rowley Poems • Thomas Chatterton

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... there, as in a dream, Which holds some boding fear of wrong, By fog-bound fen and sluggard stream I dragged my leaden steps along. My blood ran ice; I turned and spied A shrouded figure at ...

— Successful Recitations • Various

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... Pearson? Do you think you could arouse the people in the fen-country? You might raise and drill an army in those wilds without the Government knowing any thing about ...

— John Deane of Nottingham - Historic Adventures by Land and Sea • W.H.G. Kingston

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... arc of the foul fen, between the dry bank and the slough, with eyes turned on those who guzzle the mire. We came at length to ...

— The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell [The Inferno] • Dante Alighieri

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