·add. ·- A region of the ocean where fogs are of marked frequency, as near the coast of Newfoundland.
·noun A token or badge of knightly rank. II. Belt ·noun That which restrains or confines as a girdl...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A metaphorical term in geography for long and proportionally narrow encircling strips of land having...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A state of mental confusion. II. Fog ·noun A second growth of grass; aftergrass. III. Fog ·v...
Smoke. CANT. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
long grass : more properly after-grass. North. Coarse grass. Norf. and Suff. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A mist at sea, consisting of the grosser vapours floating in the air near the surface of the sea. Th...
A baldrick (which see). ...
An india-rubber or cork girdle round a person's waist to buoy him up in the water. ...
A dense haze, presenting the appearance of a thick cloud resting upon the horizon; it is known in hi...
A beautiful natural phenomenon incidental to high latitudes. It appears opposite to the sun, and is ...
Those transient prismatic breaks which occur in thick mists, and considered good symptoms of the wea...
A synonym of fog-dog and fog-bow. It may be explained as the clearing of the upper stratum, permitti...
The naval code established by guns to keep a fleet together, to tack, wear, and perform sundry evolu...