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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bog \bog\ bo^g, 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.
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appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit,
of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread.
--r. jago.
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2. a little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and
grass, in a marsh or swamp. local, u. s.
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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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see also:
bog bean buck bean bog bumper bog blitter bog bluiter bog jumper
bog butter bog earth bog moss sphagnum bog myrtle
bog ore bog rush bog spavin spavin
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Peat Bog, definition of term: Peat Bog
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