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.
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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.
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