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106 DICTIONARY OF AVIATION

sembling a rainbow and due to similar causes, the globules of water of the feg playing the same part as the rain? dreps.

fog-buoy 'feg,bou-i n. a buoy kept floating on a water^sur- face over tuhich feg is apt to occur, as near a shoal.

fog-dog 'feg,de:g n. a break or clearing spot in a feg^bank, presaging the lifting of the feg.

fog-drip / feg,dnp n. the drip or dropping water from solid bedies upon tuhich feg^particles have collected and run to- gether.

fog-eater 'feg,ii-t9z n. a break in a fegs=bank or mist, pres- aging clearing wether; a feg^deg; also, a feg#bow.

fogged fegd adj. coverd with feg; misty.

fogginess 'fegi-nis n. the state of being foggy.

fog-gnu / feg / gAn n. a gun fired in feggy wether as a warn- ing or feg^signal.

foggy 'fegi adj. abounding with feg; damp with feg; misty.

fog-horn 'feg,he:zn n. a hern sounded as a warning or a signal in feggy wether : as, the siren *feg?hern.

fogless 'fegtes adj. without feg; clear.

fog-ring 'feg,zirj n. a ring or circular bank or mass of feg, net unusual eff the Newfoundland coast.

fog-scale 'feg,skeel n. a scale of feg^intensities; a graded system by tuhich degrees of fegginess may be exprest; a system of grades for describing how thick the feg is.

fop-signal / feg / signl n. a signal such as the sound of a hern, tuhistle, or torpedo, made in feggy wether as a warn^ ing of danger; a feg^alarm.

Edem fogisignal, a signal for use in feggy or thick wether to determm the direction of approaching sound* waves.

fog- wave 'feg,weev n. a wave of feg; a feg^billow.

fohn fern n. a warm dry south or southwest wind which descends from the upper Alps into the valleys en the north side of the chain of Alps; also, a similar wind elsetuhere, as en the west coast of Greenland and in New Zealand; a fohn^wind.

fohn-wind 'fe:n,wind n. same meaning as fohn.

fold foold tr. double over en itself; lay or bring one part (of a balloon, etc.) over onto another by bending.

footpound 'fot,paund n. the amount of energy required, at any given place or altitude, to raise a weight of one pound, against gravity, a height of one foot : a unit of energy, or work.

foot-rest 'fut,zest n. a red, bar, or the like, as in a biplane, en tuhich the aviator rests his feet during flight.

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