Bog"gy (&?;), a. Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.
Bo"gie (&?;), n. [A dialectic word. N. of Eng. & Scot.] 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.
Bo"gle (&?;), n. [Scot. and North Eng. bogle, bogill, bugill, specter; as a verb, to terrify, fr. W. bwgwl threatening, fear, bwg, bwgan, specter, hobgoblin. Cf. Bug.] A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear. [Written also boggle.]
Bog"suck`er (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.
Bog"trot`ter (&?;), n. One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. Halliwell.
Bog"trot`ting (&?;), a. Living among bogs.
Bogue (&?;), v. i. (Naut.) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.
Bogue (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See Boce.
Bo"gus (&?;), a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. [Colloq. U. S.]
Bo"gus, n. A liquor made of rum and molasses. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.
Bog"wood` (&?;), n. 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.
Bo"gy (&?;), n.; pl. Bogies (&?;). [See Bogle.] 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.
Bo*hea" (&?;), n. [From Wu-i, pronounced by the Chinese bu-i, the name of the hills where this kind of tea is grown.] Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.
The name was formerly applied to superior kinds of black tea, or to black tea in general.
Bo*he"mi*a (&?;), n. 1. A country of central Europe.