Word Meanings - FEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Wordsworth. Note: Fen is used adjectively with the sense of belonging

Additional info about word: FEN

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. Wordsworth. 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 , a wild duck inhabiting fens; the shoveler. -- Fen fowl , any water fowl that frequent fens. -- Fen goose , the graylag goose of Europe. -- Fen land, swamp land.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FEN)

• Marsh
• Swamp
• fen
• quagmire
• bog
• slough
• morass

Related words: (words related to FEN)

• SLOUGHING
  The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
• MARSHY
  1. Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny. 2. Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed. Dryden.
• MARSH MARIGOLD
  . A perennial plant of the genus Caltha , growing in wet places and bearing bright yellow flowers. In the United States it is used as a pot herb under the name of cowslip. See Cowslip.
• MARSH
  A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass. Marsh asphodel , a plant with linear equitant leaves, and a raceme of small white flowers; -- called also bog asphodel. -- Marsh cinquefoil
• MARSHBANKER; MARSEBANKER
  The menhaden.
• MARSHALER
  One who marshals.
• MARSHALSEA
  The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household. Court of Marshalsea, a court formerly held before the steward and marshal of the king's house to administer justice between
• QUAGMIRE
  Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet. "A spot surrounded by quagmires, which rendered it difficult of access." Palfrey. Syn. -- Morass; marsh; bog; swamp; fen; slough.
• MORASSY
  Marshy; fenny. Pennant.
• MARSHAL
  mariscalcus, from OHG. marah-scalc ; marah horse + scalc servant . F. maréchal signifies, a marshal, and a farrier. See Mare horse, and cf. 1. Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom. 2. An officer of high rank, charged with
• SLOUGHY
  Full of sloughs, miry.
• MARSHINESS
  The state or condition of being marshy.
• SWAMP
  Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore. Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern. Tennyson. A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees
• MARSHALSHIP
  The office of a marshal.
• SWAMPY
  Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land.
• MORASS
  A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen. Morass ore. See Bog ore, under Bog. (more info) F. marais, prob. from L. mare sea, in LL., any body of water; but perh. influenced by some German word. See Mere a lake, and cf.
• SLOUGH
  Slow. Chaucer.
• MARSHALING
  The arrangement of an escutcheon to exhibit the alliances of the owner. Marshaling of assets , the arranging or ranking of assets in due order of administration. (more info) 1. The act of arranging in due order.
• SUBMARSHAL
  An under or deputy marshal.
• KNIGHT MARSHAL
  An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties. Wharton.
• DISMARSHAL
  To disarrange; to derange; to put in disorder. Drummond.
• EARL MARSHAL
  An officer of state in England who marshals and orders all great ceremonials, takes cognizance of matters relating to honor, arms, and pedigree, and directs the proclamation of peace and war. The court of chivalry was formerly under his