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- Bog - n. - A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
- Bog - n. - A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
- Bog - v. t. - To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
- Bogberry - n. - The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.
- Bogey - n. - A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.
- Boggard - n. - A bogey.
- Bogged - imp. & p. p. - of Bog
- Bogging - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Bog
- Boggle - n. - To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.
- Boggle - n. - To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
- Boggle - n. - To play fast and loose; to dissemble.
- Boggle - v. t. - To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.
- Boggled - imp. & p. p. - of Boggle
- Boggler - n. - One who boggles.
- Boggling - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Boggle
- Bogglish - a. - Doubtful; skittish.
- Boggy - a. - Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.
- Bogie - n. - A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.
- Bogies - pl. - of Bogy
- Bogle - n. - A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.
- Bogsucker - n. - The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.
- Bogtrotter - n. - One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.
- Bogtrotting - a. - Living among bogs.
- Bogue - v. i. - To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.
- Bogue - n. - The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See Boce.
- Buck bean - - A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean.
- Hassock - n. - A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock.
- Palustral - a. - Of or pertaining to a bog or marsh; boggy.
- Limonite - n. - Hydrous sesquioxide of iron, an important ore of iron, occurring in stalactitic, mammillary, or earthy forms, of a dark brown color, and yellowish brown powder. It includes bog iron. Also called brown hematite.
- Boggy - a. - Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.
- Mizzy - n. - A bog or quagmire.
- Sundew - n. - Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort.
- Sphagnum - n. - A genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss.
- Sphagnous - a. - Pertaining to moss of the genus Sphagnum, or bog moss; abounding in peat or bog moss.