Defn: Behoves or behooves. [Obs.] Chaucer.
BOG Bog, n. Etym: [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 (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.
BOG
Bog, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Bogging.]
Defn: 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.
BOGBERRY
Bog"ber`ry, n. (Bot.)
Defn: The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.
BOGEY
Bo"gey, n.
Defn: A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.