bog /(bŏg)/
bog
n.
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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.]
Phrases & Compounds
- Bog bean
- See Buck bean.
- Bog bumper
- the bittern.
- Bog butter
- a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland.
- Bog earth
- a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber.
- Bog moss
- Same as Sphagnum.
- Bog myrtle
- the sweet gale.
- Bog ore
- An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or limonite.
- Bog rush
- any rush growing in bogs; saw grass.
- Bog spavin
- See under Spavin.
Bog
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Bogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Bogging
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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.