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] [Mineralogy|Min.], a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. P. Cyc. -- [Bog moss]. [Botany|Bot.] Same as [Sphagnum]. -- [Bog myrtle] [Botany|Bot.], the sweet gale. -- [Bog ore]. [Mineralogy|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] [Botany|Bot.], any rush growing in bogs; saw grass. -- [Bog spavin]. See under [Spavin].

© [Webster 1913].

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.

© [Webster 1913].

Bog (definition)