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A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck.

A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear. [Written also boggle.]

The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.

One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. Halliwell.

Living among bogs.

The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See Boce.

Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. [Colloq. U. S.]

The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.

A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear. "Death's heads and bogies." J. H. Newman. [Written also bogey.] There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. C. Kingsley.

Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.

Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See Bohemian, n., 3. She knew every one who was any one in the land of Bohemia. Compton Reade.

Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2.

The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian. [Modern]

See Upas.

See Boyar.

n and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.

See Boilery.

Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.

One who boils.

A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.