Definition of Fernier

1. ferny [adj] - See also: ferny

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fernier

fern allies
fern ally
fern family
fern genus
fern palm
fern rhapis
fern test
fernandinite
fernane
fernbird
fernbirds
ferned
ferneries
fernery
fernier (current term)
ferniest
ferning
fernings
ferninst
fernless
fernlike
ferns
fernshaw
fernshaws
fernticle
fernticles
ferny
ferocious
ferociously

Literary usage of Fernier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1847)
"fernier, and sister of Mrs. Lester, of Wotton, near Gloucester. Sept. 2. From exhaustion and cold on the mountains in Inverness-shire, ..."

2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1868)
"fernier studied academically in Oxford and in Germany as well as at Edinburgh; resting English culture, and German free action of speculative faculty, ..."

3. An American Text-book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat by Burton Alexander Randall, George Edmund DeSchweinitz (1901)
"Clausen found that the nasal passages of rabbits were apt to contain quantities of pyogenic bacteria. Von Besser, fernier ..."

4. Scottish Notes and Queries edited by John Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson (1899)
"Sir Thomas Sutherland (chairman of the P. & 0.) James Bryce, MP for South Aberdeen Dr. David fernier. Sir William Geddes, Principal of the University. ..."

5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1864)
"Professor fernier, in his general preface to the Nodes, vol. i., seeks to explain this discrepancy by the assertion that, though Hogg sent considerably more ..."

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