'Bog butter' definitions:

Definition of 'Bog butter'

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  • bog \bog\ (b[o^]g), n. [Ir. & Gael. bog soft, tender, moist: cf. Ir. bogach bog, moor, marsh, Gael. bogan quagmire.] [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. --R. Jago. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.] [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]