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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. See Gamboge. [ 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.

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 ]