Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Bog"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bog \Bog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bogged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{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. --Sir W.
Scott.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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

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

2. 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. --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}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

bog
n : wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer
drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but
can be cut and dried and used for fuel [syn: {peat bog}]
v 1: cause to slow down or get stuck; "The vote would bog down
the house" [syn: {bog down}]
2: get stuck while doing something; "She bogged down many times
while she wrote her dissertation" [syn: {bog down}]


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