"fog" Definition

Definitions for the word "fog" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A second growth of grass; aftergrass.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter; -- called also foggage.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A state of mental confusion.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 thick cloud of water droplets or smoke suspended at or near the earth''s surface. 2 cloudiness on a photographic negative etc. 3 uncertain or confused position or state. v. (-gg-) 1 cover or become covered with or as with fog. 2 perplex. [perhaps a back-formation from *foggy]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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