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Fen   /fɛn/   Listen
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Fen  n.  Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh. "'Mid reedy fens wide spread." Note: Fen is used adjectively with the sense of belonging to, or of the nature of, a fen or fens.
Fen boat, a boat of light draught used in marshes.
Fen duck (Zool.), a wild duck inhabiting fens; the shoveler. (Prov. Eng.)
Fen fowl (Zool.), any water fowl that frequent fens.
Fen goose (Zool.), the graylag goose of Europe. (Prov. Eng.)
Fen land, swamp land.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fen" Quotes from Famous Books



... as ere my mother brush'd With Rauens feather from vnwholesome Fen Drop on you both: A Southwest blow on yee, And blister ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... has blest me, sure it still Will lead me on O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent till The night is gone, And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 • Charles Sylvester

... course and black, &c. Drink; thick, thin, sour, &c. Water unclean, milk, oil, vinegar, wine, spices &c. Flesh Parts: heads, feet, entrails, fat, bacon, blood, &c. Kinds: Beef, pork, venison, hares, goats, pigeons, peacocks, fen-fowl, &c. Herbs, Fish, &c. Of fish; all shellfish, hard and slimy fish, &c. Of herbs; pulse, cabbage, melons, garlic, onions, &c. All roots, raw fruits, hard and ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior

... Ely Fen District in 1815, which the 'Westminster Gazette' calls 'a powerful drama of human passion'; and the 'National Observer' 'a story ...
— The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... rose afar the city spires, and thence Came the deep murmur of its throng of men, And as its grateful odors met thy sense, They seemed the perfumes of thy native fen. Fair lay its crowded streets, and at the sight Thy tiny song ...
— Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant - Household Edition • William Cullen Bryant


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