bogviolet (bogvi"olet)

The butterwort. [Prov. Eng. (Yorkshire).] bog-wood (bog'wud), n. Same as bog - oak. bogwort (bog' wert), n. [ as cranberry. bog-spavin (bog's pav'in), n. In farriery , encysted tumor on the inside of the hough of a horse, containing a gelatinous matter. bog-sucker (bog's uk"ėr), n. A name of the woodcock of North America, Philohela minor . bog-trotter (bog'trotèr), 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 cro ing the extensive bogs 2. A hobgoblin; a bugbear. bogy, bogeyl (bo'gi), n.; pl. bogies , bogeys (-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 an epithet (in this use with a capital): as, Old Bogy . I am bogey , and frighten everybody away. the country by leaping from tu ock 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 Irish man. Beware of bog - trotting quacks. Thoreau, Walden, p. 225.