Fog

[fɒg] or [fɔɡ]

Definition

(noun.) droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground.

(noun.) an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance.

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Definition

(n.) A second growth of grass; aftergrass.

(n.) Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter; -- called also foggage.

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

(v. i.) To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.

(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.

(n.) A state of mental confusion.

(v. t.) To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.

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

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Haze, mist.

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Definition

n. a thick mist: watery vapour rising from either land or water.—v.t. to shroud in fog.—v.i. to become coated with a uniform coating.—ns. Fog′-bank a dense mass of fog sometimes seen at sea appearing like a bank of land; Fog′-bell a bell rung by the motion of the waves or wind to warn sailors from rocks shoals &c. in foggy weather.—adj. Fog′-bound impeded by fog.—ns. Fog′-bow a whitish arch like a rainbow seen in fogs.—adv. Fog′gily.—n. Fog′giness.—adj. Fog′gy misty: damp: clouded in mind: stupid.—n. Fog′-horn a horn used as a warning signal by ships in foggy weather: a sounding instrument for warning ships off the shore during a fog: a siren.—adj. Fog′less without fog clear.—ns. Fog′-ring a bank of fog in the form of a ring; Fog′-sig′nal an audible signal used on board ship &c. during a fog when visible signals cease to be of use; Fog′-smoke fog.

n. grass which grows in autumn after the hay is cut: (Scot.) moss.—v.i. to become covered with fog.

Typist: Thaddeus