Part 1247

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To play fast and loose; to dissemble.</def>

<i>Howell.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- To doubt; hesitate; shrink; stickle; demur.</syn>

<h1>Boggle</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bog"gle</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.</def> <mark>[Local, U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Boggler</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bog"gler</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who boggles.</def>

<h1>Bogglish</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bog"glish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Doubtful; skittish.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Boggy</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bog"gy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; <as>as, <ex>boggy</ex> land</as>.</def>

<h1>Bogie</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bo"gie</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <mark>[A dialectic word. N. of Eng. & Scot.]</mark> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Bogle</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bo"gle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Scot. and North Eng. <ets>bogle</ets>, <ets>bogill</ets>, <ets>bugill</ets>, specter; as a verb, to terrify, fr. W. <ets>bwgwl</ets> threatening, fear, <ets>bwg</ets>, <ets>bwgan</ets>, specter, hobgoblin. Cf. <er>Bug</er>.]</ety> <def>A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>boggle</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Bogsucker</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bog"suck`er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.</def>

<h1>Bogtrotter</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bog"trot`ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.</def>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<h1>Bogtrotting</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bog"trot`ting</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Living among bogs.</def>

<h1>Bogue</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bogue</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.</def>

<h1>Bogue</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bogue</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The boce; -- called also <altname>bogue bream</altname>. See <er>Boce</er>.</def>

<h1>Bogus</h1> <Xpage=162>

<hw>Bo"gus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Etymol. uncertain.]</ety> <def>Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.</def> <mark>[Colloq. U. S.]</mark>