boggle 
shrink. 3. To play fast and loose ; dissemble ; 
(|iiil>I)le; equivocate. 
When Mlnilii'iriril to his l:i-t end It wai* II" ttnii- for 
him to /.;(.;/. Will! till- "Olid. llmi-rll. 
4. To bungle; be awkward; iniiko clumsy at- 
tempts. 
boggle" (l)og'l), . 1. The act of shying or t;<k- 
ing alarm. 2f. Objection; scruple; demur. 
The Uuti-'h iio make a furthi-r b^ilr with us alwmt two 
ir three things. I'- ;"/*, Diary, 1M7. 
3. A bungle; a botch. [Colloq.] - Boggle-de- 
botCll, DOggledy-bOtCh, a i->ni|ili-ti- Iwtch ..r lumdc. 
boggle-' (bog'l), . [Origin uncertain; perhaps 
sunn- us IMM/I/II ', /null/'. :> scarecrow.] A pitcher 
or jug wrought in the figure of a man, not un- 
611 
Bogoda (bo-go'dii), n. [NL.] A genus of East 
Iniliiin fishes, considered by some as typical of 
a family HiM/mlniilfi or Jtni/mli 'tin . 
Bogodidae (bo-god'i-dc), w. jit. [NL., < Jlogoda 
+ -iV/rt'.] A family of percoideous fishes: sy- 
nonymous with 
like a toby or tnby-piicher. 
lf-d), . A 
moor-buzzard, 
. 
bog-glede (liog'sjlf-d), . A Scotch name of the 
boggier (bog'ler), . [< boggle 2 + -er 1 .] 1. A 
doubter ; a timorous man. 2f. A jilt ; one false 
in love. 
You have been a boggier ever, .itmk., A. and i '., ill. 11. 
3. One who bungles or is clumsy in doing 
things. 
bogglisht (bog'lish), a, [< boggW + -is/i.] 
Doubtful ; wavering. 
Nothing ia more sly, touchy, and tH><i<jli*ti . . . than that 
opinion . . . of the many or common people. 
Jer. Taylor ('/), Artif. Handsomeness, p. 172. 
boggy (bog'h, . [< bug 1 . >i., + -y 1 .] Contain- 
ing bogs ; full of bogs ; like or having the char- 
acter of a bog. 
Quencli'd in a bogifii Syrtls, neither sea 
Nor good dry land. Milton, P. L., ii. 939. 
boggybo (bog'i-bo), . [North. E. dial.] A 
dialectal form of bugaboo. 
Boghead coal. See coal. 
boghouse (bog'hous), . [< bogl + house.} A 
privy. Johnson. 
bogie ' 
See bogy. 
bogie-, bogey' J (bp'gi), . [Of uncertain origin. 
Sometimes explained from bogie*, bogy, a fiend, 
the bogie eoal-wagon when first introduced 
being so called, it is said, because, from its 
suddenly turning when people least expected 
it, they used to exclaim that the new wagon 
was ' Old Bogy ' himself. But this is mere in- 
vention. See bogle.'] 1. A name first given 
at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in England, to a coal- 
wagou or truck so constructed as to turn easily 
in moving about the quays; a trolly. 2. An 
English term for a four-wheeled truck support- 
ing the front part of a locomotive engine, or 
placed one under each end of a railway-car- 
riage, and turning beneath it by means of a 
central pin or pivot, to facilitate the passing 
of sudden curves. 3. In a saw-mill, a small 
carriage running on a transverse track on a 
log-carriage, used to change the position of the 
log in relation to the saw. 
bogie-engine (bo'gi-en'jin), n. A locomotive 
used in moving cars and making up trains at 
a railroad station. The driving-wheels and cyl- 
inders are on a truck which turns freely on a 
center-pin. 
bog-jumper (bog'jum'per), . Same as bog- 
biuiiiH'i'. 
bog-land (bog'land), n. and . I. . Boggy or 
marshy land: as, to reclaim a piece of bog-laud. 
II. a. Living in or pertaining to a marshy 
country. [Rare.] 
Kai'h brings his love a boylaiul captive home. 
liriiiifH, Prol. to Prophetess, 1. 31. 
bogle (bo'gl), u. [Also dial, boggle, Sc. bogle, 
ln>i/ill. luii/il. ,i specter, hobgoblin; prob. of Cel- 
tic origin; cf. W. bicgwl, bygwl, a threat, men- 
ace, bygel, a bugbear, scarecrow, hobgoblin, 
Inrg, a specter, > E. bug 1 : see bug 1 and bugbear. 
Cf. //</'-'. hiii/i/anll. and G. bogge, boggel-muitii, 
a bogy, bogle.] A phantom; a specter; a hob- 
goblin; n bogy: :i bugbear. 
boglet (bog'let). ii. [< />'/' + -let.] A little 
bog; a boggy place or spot of small extent. 
And of this tufty. flagity ground, lacked with IKI^ and 
hutlrtt. K. H l .nun Doone, p. 432. 
bog-manganese (bog'mang'ga-nez). ii. Same 
us tend. 
bog-moss (bog'mds), ii. Peat-inoss. See Sphag- 
num. 
bog-oak (bog '6k), it. Trunks and large 
branches of oak found embedded in bogs and 
preserved by the antiseptic properties of peat. 
It is of u shining Mack or ebony color, or of a deep ureen 
ish-gray, miitili'd and shading into black, derived from it* 
impregnation with iron, and i^ frequently eonverteil into 
iirnami-ntal pieces of furniture and smaller ornament*, a- 
hrooches, e:nrin-- etc. VK.i called /-/-irood. 
Bogomile (bog'6-mil), . [Cf. Russ. bogu, God; 
nii/ii.ili, grace.]' One of a medieval Cathanst 
sect, having its principal seat in Bulgaria, anti- 
i-U-rical in its polity, dualistic in its doctrine, 
and in general similar to the Docette and the 
ManichiDans. The views and practices of the Bogo- 
miles were very fanatical. They were little known, and 
by tonic are supposed to have become extinct noon after 
tii, execution of their leader, Basil of PhilipjKipolis, at 
< 'ointantinople, in 111S. 
Bogomilian (bog-o-inil'i-an), a. Pertaining to 
the Hogomiles or their doctrines. 
bog-orchis (bog'dr'kis), n. A low orchid of 
boggy places. See Malaxig. 
bog-ore (bog'&r), . Same as bog-iron ore. 
Bogota bark. See bark*. 
bog-rush (bog'rush), n. 1. The name of va- 
rious cyperaceous plants. See ruah. 2. Some 
small undetermined species of warbler. [Lo- 
cal, Great Britain.] 
bog-spavin (bog'spav'in), . In farriery, an 
encysted tumor on the inside of the hough of a 
horse, containing a gelatinous matter. 
bog-sucker (bog'suk'er), . A name of the 
woodcock of North America, Philohela minor. 
bog-trotter (bog'trot'er), n. One who trots 
over bogs, or lives among bogs; especially, a 
contemptuous appellation given to the Irish 
peasantry, probably from the skill shown by 
many of them in crossing the extensive bogs 
of the country by leaping from tussock to tus- 
sock, where a stranger would find no footing, 
and from the frequent use they make of this 
skill to escape from the soldiery, the police, etc. 
bog-trotting (bog'trot'ing), a. " Trotting among 
bogs, or, more usually, living among bogs : as, 
a bog-trotting Irishman. 
Beware of bog-trotting quacks. 
Ooldtmith, ritm-n of the World, Ixvlil. 
With his Inherited Irish poverty ... not to rise In this 
world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed dwj- 
trotting feet get talaria to their heels. 
Thoreau, Waldeu, p. 22S. 
bogueM (bog), v. i. [Prob. < Sp. bogar, row (cf. 
bogar a sotavento, row to leeward), = Pg. Pr. 
vogar = It. vogare = F. roguer, row, sail, > 
rogue, E. rogue, q. v.] \<mi ., to drop off from 
the wind ; edge away to leeward with the wind, 
as some vessels of inferior sailing qualities do. 
TO bogue in, to "sail In"; take a hand; engage In a 
work. [Local, >ew England.) 
[A farmer says :] " I don't git much done thont I boyue 
right in along th my men." 
ij not ed by I. mi; II. Biglow Papers, 2d ser., Int. 
bogue 2 (bog), . [< OF. bogue, formerly also 
bocque, = Pr. buga = Sp. Pg. boga = It. boca, 
boghe (Florio), now boga, < ML. boca, for L. box 
(hoc-), < Or. /?<if, contr. of /3<Saf, a certain sea- 
fish, so named from the sound it makes.] An 
acanthopterygian fish, Box vulgar^, of the fami- 
ly Sparitkf, found in the Mediterranean, on the 
west coast of Africa, and in rare cases on the 
coasts of Britain. The body is oblong and compressed, 
the head and mouth are small, the teeth notched, the eyes 
large, and the general coloring is brilliant. Also called 
'"><' and } ><i'iit . 
bogue 3 (bog), n. [OF., = F. bouche : see eni- 
bogue .] A mouth ; an embouchure. Used specifi- 
cally in the name the Rogue, the principal niouth of the 
Canton river In China (also called Boca Titjri*, the Tiger's 
Mouth). 
boguest (bo'gest), H. [E. dial., appar. barguest 
varied toward bogy 1 : see these words.] A spec- 
ter; a ghost. [Prov. Eng. (Yorkshire).] 
bogus 1 (bo'gus). n. and a. [A slang word, of 
wnich many conjectural explanationsliave been 
offered, e. g., that it is a corruption of bagasse, 
sugar-cane refuse, etc. Dr. Samuel Willard of 
Chicago, in a letter to the editor of the New 
Eng. Diet., "quotes from the ' Painesville (Ohio) 
Telegraph' of July 6 and Nov. 2, 1827, the word 
liogus as a substantive applied to an apparatus 
for coining false money. Mr. Eber D. Howe, 
who was then editor of that paper, describes 
in his 'Autobiography' (1878) the discovery of 
such a piece of mechanism in the hands of a gang 
of coiners at Painesville in May, 1827 ; it was 
a mysterious-looking object, and some one in 
the crowd styled it a 'bogus,' a designation 
adopted in the succeeding numbers of the pa- 
per. Dr. Willard considers this to have been 
short for tuiitrnlxiiiHs, a word familiar to him 
from his childhood, and which in his father's 
time was commonly applied in Vermont to any 
Bohemian 
ill-looking object: he points out that tfintara- 
bobs is given in Halliwell as a Devonshire word 
for the devil. liot/ux seems thus to be related 
to IKM/I/, dr." (.V. /:. it.) The E. dial, word 
may have been transported to New England 
and undergone there the alteration to which 
such terms are subject.] I.f n. An apparatus 
for coining counterfeit money. 
II. a. Counterfeit; spurious; sham: origi- 
nally applied in the United States to counter- 
feit money, but now to anything based on sham 
or fable pretense: as, a ft<i/. claim; a bogus 
government. 
But our boffli* theologians, who systematically convert 
the tine gold of the gospel Into glittering tinsel, and sell 
It for lucre, occupy the highest seats In our synagogues. 
//. Jama, Sul. and .Shad!, p. 177. 
bogus 2 (bo'gus), n. [Origin uncertain ; perhaps 
a use of bogus 1 . Some refer it to bagasse, su- 
gar-cane refuse.] A liquor made of rum and 
molasses. Bartlett. [U. 8.] 
bog-violet (bog'vi6-let), n. The butterwort. 
[Prov. Eng. (Yorksnire).] 
bog- wood (bog'wud), . Same as boij-oak. 
bogwort (bog'wert), n. [<6o(/i + iror? 1 .] Same 
as cranberry. 
bogy, bogey 1 (bo'gi), .; pi. bogie*, bogeyg 
(-giz). [Also written bogie; a comparatively 
recent word, appar. a var. (perhaps arising 
from nursery speech) of bogle, or from the same 
source: see bogle.} 1. The devil: often as a 
quasi-proper name, and usually with en epithet 
(in this use with a capital) : as, Old Bogy. 
I am bogey, and frighten everybody away. 
TriacJceray, Newcomes. 
2. A hobgoblin ; a bugbear. 
The humble Northumbrian bogie who "flitted" with the 
farmer when he removed his furniture. 
Encyc. Brit., II. 2W. 
There is no reasoning . . . with men to whom party 
considerations are of the first moment, and who feel bound 
to discover bogiet In every measure adopted by the party 
In power. Sir O. Wolteley, N. A. Rev., CXXVIII. 136. 
bogyism, bogeyism (bo'gi-izm), n. f< bogy, 
bogey^, + -igmT] 1. That which pertains to or 
is characteristic of a bogy. 2. Belief in or 
dread of sprites or goblins. Thackeray. 
bo-hacky (bo-hak'i), . [E. dial.] A donkey. 
Halliiccll. [Prov. Eng. (Yorkshire).] 
bohea (bo-he'), . [C Chinese Woo-ye or Voo- 
ye, the name of two ranges of hills in the prov- 
ince of Fuhkien, China, where the tea-shrub is 
largely grown, and whence tea was first im- 
ported into England in 1666. In the dialects 
of Fuhkien b is used for w and u.] 1. A gen- 
eral name for tea. 
To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, 
To muse, and spill her solitary tea. 
/'../. Ep. to Miss Blonnt. II. 15. 
For if my pure libations exceed three, 
I feel my heart become so sympathetic, 
That I must have recourse to black Bohea. Byron. 
By way of entertainment In the evening, to make a party 
with the sergeant's wife to drink bohea tea, and play at 
all-fours on a drum-head. Sheridan, St. Patrick's Day, 1. 2. 
2. An inferior kind of black tea, grown on the 
Woo-ye hills of China, or tea of a similar qual- 
ity grown in other districts of the same country. 
See tea. 
Bohemian (bo-he'mi-an), H. and a. [= F. Bo- 
hemien, a Bohemian, and in a secondary signi- 
fication a gipsy, < Boheme, ML. Bohemia, the 
country of the Bohemi, Boihemi, or Boicmi, 
Latinized form repr. by O. Bdhmett, Bohemia, 
< L. Hail, a people of ancient Gaul, of whom a 
portion settled in what is now Bohemia, + 
'-hern, OHG. heim = E. home.] I. 11. 1. A na- 
tive or an inhabitant of Bohemia, a crownlaud 
and kingdom of the Austrian empire. 2. A 
follower of John Huss ; a Hussite. 3. [F. 60- 
hemien, because the first of that wandering race 
that entered France were believed to be Bo- 
hemians or Hussites, driven from their native 
country.] A gipsy. 
"How! of no country?" repeated the Scot. "No," 
answered the Bohemian, "of none. I am a Zlngaro, a 
Bohemian, an Egyptian, or whatever the Europeans, in 
their different languages, may choose to call our people, 
but I have no country." Scoff, Q. Durward, \vi. 
4. A person, especially an artist or a literary 
man, who leads a free and often somewhat 
dissipated life, having little regard to what so- 
ciety he frequents, and despising convention- 
alities generally. [Sometimes without a cap- 
ital.] 
By Bohrmian I do not mean to be uncomplimentary. I 
mean merely a class of persons who prefer adventure and 
speculation to settled industry, and who do not work well 
In the harness of ordinary life. Fronde, Sketches, p. 217. 
5. The ancient tongue of Bohemia, a member 
of the Slavic branch of the Aryan family. 
