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n. [ Ir. & Gael. bog soft, tender, moist: cf. Ir. bogach bog, moor, marsh, Gael. bogan quagmire. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit,
Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. R. Jago. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. P. Cyc. --
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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Humphrey DeForest Bogart, famous movie actor; most commonly called Humphrey Bogart; b. 1899, d. 1957.
Syn. -- Humphrey Bogart, Humphrey DeForest Bogart. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of or pertaining to Humphrey Bogart. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a perennial plant of Europe and America (Menyanthes trifoliata) having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at the water margin and spreading across the surface; -- called also bog myrtle, water shamrock and marsh trefoil.
Syn. -- water shamrock, buckbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bogeys /plu>. [ Also bogie and bogy, plural bogies. ] 1. A goblin; a bugbear.
Syn. -- bogeyman. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

I have become a sort of bogey -- a kill-joy. Wm. Black. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Golf) a score one stroke over par for a hole; formerly, the definition of bogey was the same as that now used for par, i.e., an ideal score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; -- it was said to be so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey. Now the standard score is called par. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

3. (Mil.) an unidentified aircraft; in combat situations, such craft not identified as friendly are assumed to be hostile. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. bogeys /pl>, 1. A goblin; a bugbear. [ 1913 Webster Supplement ]

I have become a sort of bogey -- a killjoy. Wm. Black. [ 1913 Webster Supplement ]

2. (Golf) A score on a given hole which is one stroke over par. Originally, bogey had the same meaning as par does now, i.e. a given score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; -- said to be so-called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey. A double bogey is a score of two strokes over par. [ PJC ]

3. (Golf) Par. See sense 2, above. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster Supplement ]

4. (Military) An unidentified aircraft, especially one detected on a radar screen and believed to be an enemy airplane. [ Also spelled bogie. ] [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Bogeymen /plu>. A goblin; a bugbear; a bogey{ 1 }. This is the form used by parents to frighten children; as, if you don't eat your vegetables, the bogeyman will get you.
Syn. -- bogey. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, or an imaginary monster, used to frighten children, etc. “Go to sleep or the Boogeyman will get you.”
Syn. -- Hobgoblin; goblin; specter; ogre; scarecrow; booger; bugaboo; bugbear. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A bogey. [ Local, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Boggled p. pr. & vb. n. Boggling ] [ See Bogle, n. ] 1. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. [ 1913 Webster ]

We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To play fast and loose; to dissemble. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To doubt; hesitate; shrink; stickle; demur. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who boggles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Doubtful; skittish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A dialectic word. N. of Eng. & Scot. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Railroads) A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Scot. and North Eng. bogle, bogill, bugill, specter; as a verb, to terrify, fr. W. bwgwl threatening, fear, bwg, bwgan, specter, hobgoblin. Cf. Bug. ] A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear. [ Written also boggle. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Colombia. Population (2000) = 45, 448. [ PJC ]

n. (Zool.) The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Living among bogs. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Naut.) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See Boce. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A liquor made of rum and molasses. [ Local, U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bogies [ See Bogle. ] A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear. “Death's heads and bogies.” J. H. Newman. [ Written also bogey. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Gamboge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disembogued p. pr. & vb. n. Disemboguing. ] [ Sp. desembocar; pref. des- (L. dis-) + embocar to put into the mouth, fr. en (L. in) + boca mouth, fr. L. bucca cheek. Cf. Debouch, Embogue. ] 1. To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves,
And through nine channels disembogues his waves. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To eject; to cast forth. [ R. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become discharged; to flow out; to find vent; to pour out contents. [ 1913 Webster ]

Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disemboguing; discharge. Mease. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Disembogue. ] To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taken internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic. [ Written also camboge. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There are several kinds of gamboge, but all are derived from species of Garcinia, a genus of trees of the order Guttiferæ. The best Siam gamboge is thought to come from Garcinia Hanburii. Ceylon gamboge is from G. Morella. G. pictoria, of Western India, yields gamboge, and also a kind of oil called gamboge butter.

{ } a. Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, gamboge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. intellectually or emotionally overwhelming; straining one's capacity to comprehend or cope; as, a mind-boggling display; a mind-boggling puzzle. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. fle`ps, flebo`s + -gram. ] (Physiol.) A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Rhomb + ganoid. ] (Zool.) A ganoid fish having rhombic enameled scales; one of the Rhomboganoidei. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) Same as Ginglymodi. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Rhomb + root of Gr. gi`gnesqai to be born. ] (Zool.) A dicyemid which produces infusorialike embryos; -- opposed to nematogene. See Dicyemata. [ Written also rhombogen. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. See Toboggan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corruption of American Indian odabagan a sled. ] A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow. [ Written also tobogan, and tarbogan. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Tobogganed p. pr. & vb. n. Tobogganing. ] To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan. Barilett. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. One who practices tobogganing. [ 1913 Webster ]