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BOG, n.

1. A quagmire covered with grass or other plants. It is defined by marsh, and morass, but differs from a marsh, as a part from the whole. Wet grounds are bogs, which are the softest and too soft to bear a man; marshes or fens, which are less soft, but very wet; and swamps, which are soft spongy land,upon the surface,but sustain man and beast, and are often mowed.

2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, in marshes and swamps, filled with roots and grass. [This is a common use of the word in New England.]

BOG, v.t. To whelm or plunge, as in mud and mire.




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BOG, n.

1. A quagmire covered with grass or other plants. It is defined by marsh, and morass, but differs from a marsh, as a part from the whole. Wet grounds are bogs, which are the softest and too soft to bear a man; marshes or fens, which are less soft, but very wet; and swamps, which are soft spongy land,upon the surface,but sustain man and beast, and are often mowed.

2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, in marshes and swamps, filled with roots and grass. [This is a common use of the word in New England.]

BOG, v.t. To whelm or plunge, as in mud and mire.


BOG, n. [Ir. bog, soft; bogach, a marsh; bogha, a bow; boghaim, to bend; Sax. bugan; D. boogen, to bend. Soft is flexible, yielding to pressure, bending. See Bow.]

  1. A quagmire covered with grass or other plants. It is defined by marsh and morass, but differs from a marsh, as a part from the whole. Wet grounds are bogs, which are the softest and too soft to bear a man; marshes or fens, which are less soft, but very wet; and swamps, which are soft spungy land, upon the surface, but sustain man and beast, and are often mowed.
  2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, in marshes and swamps, filled with roots and grass. [This is a common use of the word in New England.]

BOG, v.t.

To whelm or plunge, as in mud and mire. – Jonson.


Bog
  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. 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.

  3. 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

BOG, noun

1. A quagmire covered with grass or other plants. It is defined by marsh, and morass, but differs from a marsh, as a part from the whole. Wet grounds are bogs, which are the softest and too soft to bear a man; marshes or fens, which are less soft, but very wet; and swamps, which are soft spongy land, upon the surface, but sustain man and beast, and are often mowed.

2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, in marshes and swamps, filled with roots and grass. [This is a common use of the word in New England.]

BOG, verb transitive To whelm or plunge, as in mud and mire.

BOG'-BEAN, noun [bog and bean; called buck-bean.]

Menyanthes, a plant, the marsh-trefoil, which grows in moist and marshy places.

BOG'-BERRY, noun [bog and berry.] Vaccinium, a name of the cranberry growing in low lands and marshy places.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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SELEC'TION, n. [L. selectio.]

1. The act of choosing and taking from among a number; a taking from a number by preference.

2. A numbers of things selected or taken from others by preference. I have a small but valuable selection of books.

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