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[ME. fern, Ferne halwes couthe in sondry londes. Compt on i a. ferniticle, fernitickle, n. See fernticle. fernleaf (fèrn'lēf), n. A delicate rose-colored alga, Cal lith amnion gracillimum. fern-owl (fèrn'oul), n. 1. Properly, a name of the common European goatsucker or night-jar, Caprimulgus europe us. - 2. The short-eared owl or marsh-owl, Asio brachyotus or accipitrinus. [Ireland.] fern-seed (fèrn'sēd), n. The seed of a fern; collectively, the seed-like bodies constituting the spores of ferns: formerly supposed to po e wonderful virtues, such as the power of rendering a person carrying it invisible. We have the receipt of fern - seed ; we walk invisible. Shak ., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 1. fernshaw (fėrn's ha), n. A shaw, brake, or thicket of ferns. He bade me take the Gipsy mother, And set her telling some story or other Of hill or dale, oakwood or fernshaw . Browning , Flight of the Duche . fernsmundt, n. The flowering fern, Osmunda regal is . Fernsmund is... an herb of some called water-fern, hath a triangular stalk, and is like polipody, and it grows in bogs and hollow grounds. G. Markham , Cheap and Good Husbandry, 1676. fernticle (férn′ti-kl), n. [Also ferntickle, farn ticle, farntickle, fan tickle; Sc. ferniticle, fern i tickle, fairntickle, explained as 'a freckle the skin resembling the seed of a fern.'] A freckle: usually in the plural. [Prov. Eng.]