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Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd.

To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away. Shak.

Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.

t by a proctor, or as by a proctor; hence, control; superintendence; -- in contempt. "The fogging proctorage of money." Milton.

ine; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger. "Some quirk or . . . evasion." Spenser. We ground the justification of our nonconformity on dark subtilties and intricate quirks. Barrow.

Misty; foggy; cloudy. [Prov. Eng.] Ray.

Mist; fog. See Roke. [Obs.]

disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog. [Written also sirene, and syren.]

Having the appearance or nature of smoke; as, a smoky fog. "Unlustrous as the smoky light." Shak.

e diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc. The vapour which that fro the earth glood [glided]. Chaucer. Fire and hail; snow and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his word. Ps. cxlviii. 8.

A fogged plate.

Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.

A watery or moist state of the atmosphere; a state of being rainy, foggy, or misty; as, the wetness of weather or the season.