bog

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. ]