Helen Fenton

Bogie: Definition and part of speech

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Bogie

  1. n. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bogtrotter: Definition and part of speech

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Bogtrotter

  1. n. One who lives in a boggy country; — applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bogue: Definition and part of speech

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Bogue

  1. n. The boce; — called also bogue bream. See Boce.
  2. v. i. To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; — said only of inferior craft.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bogus: Definition and part of speech

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Bogus

  1. n. A liquor made of rum and molasses.
  2. a. Spurious; fictitious; sham; — a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bogwood: Definition and part of speech

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Bogwood

  1. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.