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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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"Fog" Quotes from Famous Books

... almost ghastly, for his lips were all cut and swollen up, one eye disfigured and two teeth gone. "I went on my rounds this morning. I made sure to wake up the fellows on call, and one of them threatened to kill me if I ever came to his door again with that 'fog-horn holler' of mine, as he called it. The night watch-man said he'd arrest me for disturbing the peace. I didn't mind that. Then I ran across four strikers. They wanted me to join them. I refused, and—that's all, except that I'll bet they ...

— Ralph on the Engine - The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail • Allen Chapman

... like a yellow fog, which is the curse of London. I would hardly take my share of it for a share of its wealth and its curiosity—a vile double-distilled fog of the most intolerable kind. Children scarce stirring yet, but baby and the Macaw beginning ...

— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott

... mist by countless points of light. The scene from Twelfth Street north to the river, flanked by railroad yards and grim buildings, was an animated circle of a modern inferno. The cross streets intersecting the lofty buildings were dim, canon-like abysses, in which purple fog floated lethargically. The air was foul with the gas from countless locomotives, and thick with smoke and the mist of the lake. And through this earthy steam, the myriad lights from the facades of ...

— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... sun each morn arose As 'tis his nature to, But little difference he made Sopp'd by the fog's asthmatic shade; From day's beginning till its close The day no brighter grew. Above the sheets, the sleeper's nose Peep'd shyly, as afraid, While 'neath the dark and draughty flue The burnt-out cinders meanly ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., Jan. 24, 1891. • Various

... His mind was indeed in darkness! Who could have hoped that so brilliant a day should have succeeded to the gloom of such mistrust? Yet as upon a winter's morning in November when the sun rises red through the smoke, and presently the fog spreads its curtain of thick darkness over the city, and then there comes a single breath of wind from some more generous quarter, whereupon the blessed sun shines again, and the gloom is gone; or, again, as when the warm south-west wind comes up breathing kindness from the ...

— The Fair Haven • Samuel Butler

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