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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.

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.

A state of mental confusion.

(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)

To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.

(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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... Lee was shrouded in fog, and, as morning had dawned without the expected signal, he concluded that some mishap had befallen the force which was to make it. By a tortuous path he went down the side of the mountain low enough to have a distinct view of the camp. He saw the men, unconscious of the near ...

— The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government • Jefferson Davis

... dragging process. It is a very unpleasant way they have." With a curt nod to the men, he strode out through the mouth of the cave and was gone. Dusk had settled down upon mountain and valley; a thin fog swam high in the air above. One of the men cut the rope that bound ...

— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... patches; the sides and bulwarks of the vessel have been buffeted by heavy seas off the Newfoundland coast; the paint and varnish which shone on them as she dropped down the reaches of the Zuyder Zee from Amsterdam, five months ago, have become whitened with salt and dulled by fog and sun and driving spray. Across her stern, above the rudder of massive oaken plank clamped with iron, is painted the name "HALF MOON," in straggling letters. On her poop stands Henry Hudson, leaning against the tiller; beside him is a young ...

— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne

... Boston when Master Ben sailed for the north and Captain Gillam was agoing home to England with Mistress Hortense in his ship. When no answer comes to our firing, Master Ben takes to climbing the masthead and yelling like a fog-horn and dropping curses like hail and swearing he'll shoot him as fails to keep appointment as he'd shoot a dog, if he has to track him inland a thousand leagues. Split me fore and aft if ...

— Heralds of Empire - Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade • Agnes C. Laut

... militarily mad country without a conscience. At our camp in England we saw those boys of the first division who had stood in their trenches in front of Ypres one bright April morning and watched with great curiosity a peculiar looking bank of fog roll toward them from the enemy's line. It rolled into their trenches, and in a second those men were choking and gasping for breath. Their lungs filled with the rotten stuff, and they were dying by dozens in the most terrible agony, beating ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

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