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The act of disemboguing; discharge. Mease.

To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river. [R.]

The mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged. [R.]

Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic ad emetic. [Written also camboge.]

Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, gamboge.

A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.

A ganoid fish having rhombic enameled scales; one of the Rhomboganoidei.

Same as Ginglymodi.

roduces infusorialike embryos; -- opposed to nematogene. See Dicyemata. [Written also rhombogen.]

See Toboggan.

eigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow. [Written also tobogan, and tarbogan.]

One who practices tobogganing.

An electric generator or dynamo which is combined on one frame with a turbomotor, by which it is driven.

fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.

A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.

A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racems of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean.

or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound. Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked. Pope.

Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads. Chaucer. The ways in that vale were very deep. Clarendon. A deep line of operations (Military), a long line. -- Deep mourning (Costume), mourning complete and strongly marked, the garments being not only all black, but also composed of lusterless materials and of such fashion as…

ly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh. 'Mid reedy fens wide spread. Wordsworth.

Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy. "Fenny snake." Shak.