embog, v.
(ɛmˈbɒg)
Also 7 embogge, imbog, 9 embogue.
[f. en- + bog n.]
trans. To plunge into a bog; to hamper in a bog, lit. and fig.
| 1602 Best in Farr S.P. Eliz. (1845) II. 472 Imbogg'd he shall be, where nought he shall see But horror and feare. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xii. 64 He was..constrained..to Embogge himselfe in the Bankers and Vsurers bookes. 1752 Wesley in Wks. 1872 II. 256 Attempting to ride over the common..my mare was quickly imbogged. 1867 N. Brit. Daily Mail 30 Sept., The valley was so soft that the big guns would have become embogged. 1888 Daily Tel. 1 June 5/2 Embogued in a morass. |