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noun

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. "Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread."

A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. (Local, U. S.)

Bog bean. See Buck bean.

Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. (Prov.)

Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland.

Bog earth (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber.

Bog moss. (Bot.) Same as Sphagnum.

Bog myrtle (Bot.), the sweet gale.

Bog ore. (Min.)

(a)

An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or limonite.

(b)

Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese.

Bog rush (Bot.), any rush growing in bogs; saw grass.

Bog spavin. See under Spavin.

verb

Bog v. t. (past & past part. bogged; pres. part. bogging) To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire. "At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend."

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Etymology of 'Bog'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bog" Quotes from Famous Books

... American forms of government have never asserted the reverse. I may be told of a man being lynched in one State, or tarred and feathered in another, or of a duel in a third being "fought at sight." So I may be told also of men garroted in London, and of tithe proctors buried in a bog without their ears in Ireland. Neither will seventy years of continuance, nor will seven hundred, secure such an observance of laws as will prevent temporary ebullition of popular feeling, or save a people from the chance ...

— Volume 2 • Anthony Trollope

... within a few hundred yards when the savage wheeled and dashed off. Lewis' men had disobeyed orders and frightened the fellow by advancing. Deeply chagrined, Lewis hoisted an American flag as sign of friendship and continued his march. Tracks of horses were followed across a bog, along what was plainly an Indian road, till the sources of the Missouri became so narrow that one of the men put a foot on each side and thanked God that he had lived to bestride the Missouri. Stooping, ...

— Pathfinders of the West • A. C. Laut

... the simple peasant or the gallant knight, or to anyone who has the gift of the fairies and can see them. but the man who scoffs at them, and does not believe in them or care for them, he never sees them. Only now and then they play him an ugly trick, leading him into some treacherous bog and leaving him to get out ...

— The Fairy-Land of Science • Arabella B. Buckley

... prog,(3) Will oftentimes ransack the bog, To finnd a sneel, or weel-fed frog, To give relief; But I prefer a leg of ...

— Yorkshire Dialect Poems • F.W. Moorman

... the inhabitants of the Cimmerian Bosphorus, living in cities founded by the Milesiani, the chief of which is Panticapaeum, which is on the Bog a river of great size, both from its natural waters and the streams ...

— The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus • Ammianus Marcellinus

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