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around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank.

s or alluring as the blue sky, or, perhaps, because designed to clear away the clouds and fogs from the simple investor's horizon. [Colloq.]

Mist; fog; vapors. "The drifting brume." Longfellow.

Foggy; misty.

To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often fallowed by up, off, or away. So foul a sky clears without a strom. Shak. Advise him to stay till the weather clears up. Swift.

The foghting of hawks with each other.

Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor. Night . . . with black air Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom. Milton.

Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness.

g much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray. To replace the cloudy barrier dense. Cowper.

the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. Hazlitt.

Free from fog, mist, or clouds; clear. [R.]

pper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship. Nocturnal shades this world envelop. J. Philips.

Sucked out of marches. "Fen-sucked fogs." Shak.

A stupid fellow; a fogy. [Colloq.]

A fog; esp., a fog or mist with a chill wind. [Scot.] T. Chalmers.

section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy. [Political Cant, U.S.]

pass how the land bears from the ship. -- To shut in the land, to hide the land, as when fog, or an intervening island, obstructs the view.

To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.

Damaged by accidental exposure to light; light-fogged; -- said of plates or films.

the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation. " A pettifogging attorney or a litigious client." Macaulay. Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men, who guarrels move. Donne.