[f. FOG sb.1]

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  1.  intr. To become overgrown with moss. Sc.

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1715.  Pennecuik, Tweeddale, 31. About this Town [Peebles], both Fruit and Forrest-trees, have a smoother Skin then else-where, and are seldom seen, either to Fog or be Bark-bound.

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1805.  Forsyth, Beauties Scotl., I. 525. In a great deal of the lands of the county, the hedges fog at the stem or root, and would entirely die out, were they not cut over within a few inches of the ground.

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1810.  G. Chalmers, Caledonia, II. iii. 204. There issues a spring, which is called St. Bothan’s well, and which neither fogs, nor freezes.

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  2.  Agric. (trans.) a. To leave land ‘under fog’: see FOG sb.1 and FOGGING vbl. sb. b. To feed (cattle) on fog.

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1814.  Davies, Agric. S. Wales, I. 545. We saw a piece that had been fogged successively during sixteen years, and … was improving annually.

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1828.  Carr, Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), 158, s.v. When farmers take the cattle out of their pastures in autumn; they say ‘they are boun to fog them.’

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1855.  Ogilvie, Suppl., Fog.… In agriculture, to feed off the fog or pasture in winter, as cattle.

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1893.  Wilts. Gloss., Fog, to give fodder to cattle.

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