Definition of bog

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Bog (n.) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp..

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Slumpy :: Slumpy (a.) Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy.
Gouty :: Gouty (a.) Boggy; as, gouty land..
Bog :: Bog (v. t.) To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire..
Bogle :: Bogle (n.) A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.
Wash :: Wash (n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire..
Queachy :: Queachy (a.) Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving..
Sarracenia :: Sarracenia (n.) A genus of American perennial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant.
Menhaden :: Menhaden (n.) An American marine fish of the Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc..
Boggler :: Boggler (n.) One who boggles.
Disembogue :: Disembogue (v. t.) To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc..
Bogsucker :: Bogsucker (n.) The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.
Bogberry :: Bogberry (n.) The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places..
Toboggan :: Toboggan (v. i.) To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.
Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels..
Phlebogram :: Phlebogram (n.) A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse..
Mosstrooper :: Mosstrooper (n.) One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.
Bogtrotting :: Bogtrotting (a.) Living among bogs.
Syrtic :: Syrt (n.) A quicksand; a bog.
Mizzy :: Mizzy (n.) A bog or quagmire.
Moss :: Moss (n.) A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border..
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