fen

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A type of wetland fed by water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
(RQ:Shakespeare Tempest): As wicked dewe, as ere my mother bruſh'd / With Rauens feather from vnwholeſome Fen / Drop on you both : A Southweſt blow on yee, / And bliſter you all ore.
1807, (w), "England, 1802," collected in ''Poems'' (1807):

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:

England hath need of thee: she is a fen

Of stagnant waters (..)

1842, Wadsworth Longfellow|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ''Slave in the Dismal Swamp|The Slave in the Dismal Swamp'', from on Slavery|Poems on Slavery:

In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp / The hunted Negro lay; ...

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(senseid) A unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan.
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(n-g) used by enthusiasts of fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc.
(quote-journal)|volume=30|issue=21|page=127|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=fVEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA127|passage=Sad to relate, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen. (..) But the Europeans could be counted on to take the long view, and many of them would probably turn out to be real fen and fenne after all.
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A kind of mildew that grows on hops.
(quote-book)whereby the ſtagnating ſap corrupts, and breeds mouldy fen, which often ſpoils whole tracts of, till then, flouriſhing hop-grounds.
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holy
tense marker for verbs
already
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fine
subtle
pure
bog, quagmire
hay
to sharpen, to whet, to hone

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