bogga (bog a)

[E. Ind.] An East Indian measure of land, equal to three fifths of an acre. boggardı, boggart (bog'ärd, -ärt), n. [E. dial. Sc., also written bogart, and formerly bug gard, baggard; appar. & var with term.ad of boggle, bogle; in form as if The belief in elves and bogarts which once was universal. J. Fiske, Idea of God, p. 60. 2t. Any object, real or imaginary, at which a horse shies. N. E. D.-3. Figuratively, a bugbear; a thing of fear. boggard2+, n. [As bog4 + -ard.] A privy. mineralogical name is limonite: found frequently at the bottom of lakes and in swampy localities, and usually of very recent origin. = Syn. 1. Quagmire, etc. See marsh. bog1 (bog) v.; pret. and pp. bogged, ppr. bog merge in a bog, or in mud and mire: used ging. [bog1, n.] I. trans. To sink or sub chiefly in the pa ive, to be bogged. Bid him to be gone As far as he can fly, or follow day, Rather than here so bogged in vices stay. B. Jonson, Underwoods, xxxii. 'Twas time; his invention had been bogged else. B. Jonson , Every Man out of his Humour, iii. 3. Of Middle ton's horse three hundred men were taken, and one hundred were bogged . White lock, Memoirs (1682), p. 580. II. in trans . To sink or stick in a bog; hence, to flounder among obstacles; be stopped. bog2 ( bog ), n. [Early mod. E. bogge, appar. a var. of the equiv. bug1, ME. bugge, connecting the latter with the equiv. bogglel, bogle, bogy, bog gard1: see these words.] A specter; a bugbear. To take bogt, to boggle; shy; shrink. bog3 (bog), a. and n. [E. dial., formerly also bogge, earlier in deriv. form boggish2, boggish2 q. v. Cf.