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gy 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.

The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.

A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.

A bogey. [Local, Eng.]

unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow.

One who boggles.

Doubtful; skittish. [Obs.]

Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.

A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.

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.

See Gamboge.

ream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc. Rolling down, the steep Timavdisembogues his waves. Addison.