Low-lying land, often flooded in wet weather and usually more or less waterlogged throughout the year; a tract or area of such land.

Low land covered wholly or partially with shallow water, or subject to frequent inundations; a tract of such land, a marsh.

A valley, dell, or dingle; an open space between banks or woods; a forest glade; a strip of greensward or of boggy land.

Originally: †a marsh; marshland, fen (obsolete). Now: any of the flat, low-lying areas of Somerset, England, which were formerly marshland.

A bog, swamp; a fen, morass; esp. a peatbog. Now chiefly Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English.

Land consisting of marsh, marshy country; (in some places) a specific local area of marsh.

attributive, as lay-fen, lay-mire.

attributive, as lay-fen, lay-mire.

a marsh.

A pool; sometimes, a stagnant pool overgrown with reeds, etc.; a swamp.

A marsh.

= marsh, n.1

A pond or pool; a bog or fen; now, usually, wet boggy ground; a meadow recovered by draining from the bog.

= wetland, n.

Marshy ground; a mire, a puddle.

A marshy area, a bog.

A marsh, a fen.

Chiefly regional (Aberdeenshire, Banffshire). = marsh, n.1 a. Obsolete.

A marsh, swamp, morass. Later also: a muddy pool or puddle. Now somewhat rare (chiefly regional in later use).

A marsh, a fen; (also) an abyss. Obsolete (archaic in later use).

A low-lying tract of ground, often flooded, and interspersed with shallow pools and marshes.

A wet swampy tract, a bog, a marsh; an area of very wet or muddy ground; (as a mass noun) boggy land.

As a count noun: a stretch or extent of mud; a mudbank; a marsh, a fen; a piece of soft boggy ground. Obsolete.

A piece of wet spongy ground, consisting chiefly of decayed or decaying moss and other vegetable matter, too soft to bear the weight of any heavy…

A wet place, pool, marsh, mere.

A marsh, a fen. Obsolete.

A soft or marshy piece of ground; a swamp, bog, quagmire.

A fetid marsh or swamp. Also figurative.

A bog, swamp.

A hollow, low place; esp. U.S., a moist or marshy depression in a tract of land, esp. in the midst of rolling prairie. Also (U.S.) a hollow between…

A low-lying area where flowing water collects and forms a marsh, pool, etc., or disappears by evaporation or percolation. In later use chiefly U.S.

A pit, hollow, or gulley in the ground; a marshy or miry place; esp. an area or patch of exposed peat lower than surrounding moorland, often with…

A marsh, a fen. Now English regional.

A tract of low-lying marshy land; a swamp.

A tract of low-lying ground in which water collects; a piece of wet spongy ground; a marsh or bog. Originally and in early use only in the North…

In the south-eastern United States: a marsh, a swamp; esp. an area of low, swampy, wooded ground in an upland coastal region.

Land on which frogs live or are abundant. Chiefly attributive.

Swampy ground; a swamp.

English regional (Kent). A marsh; a piece of marshy or boggy land. Now rare.

North American. An area of marsh, bog, or other damp or low-lying ground.

marsh, fenland.

a type of peat bog occurring chiefly in Ireland which has a reddish colour owing to the presence of a particular type of sphagnum moss; cf. raised bog…

A low-lying piece of ground liable to be flooded; a boggy depression, swamp. See also quot. 1691 and cf. swamp, n. 1b.

A soft or boggy hollow; a morass.

‘A watery moss, a morass’ (Jamieson).

An area of land that is usually saturated with water, often a marsh or swamp. Also attributive. Also plural (sometimes construed as singular).

U.S. More fully purgatory swamp. A swamp. Now historical except in place names.

A marsh, bog, or fen; an area of wetland; (as a mass noun) marshland.

A boggy or springy piece of ground.

A swamp, a marsh.

In South Africa: A shallow pool of water; a piece of low-lying ground covered with water during the rainy season.

A swamp or bog consisting of a mixture of water and partly dead vegetation, often covered by a layer of sphagnum or other mosses; terrain…

U.S. regional (chiefly southern). A tract of marshland, a marsh; a shallow and densely vegetated pond or lake.

Fens collectively.

In New Zealand, esp. in western parts of the South Island: a tract or area of open land, often waterlogged; land of this kind.

The name of a belt of unhealthy marshy and jungly land, lying between the lower foothills of the Himalayas and the plains. Also attributive.

A stretch of ground of a swampy nature.

In Russian central Asia, any of the wide expanses of clay which are covered with water in the spring and are dry in summer.

A little bog.

North American. A concealed expanse of water in a swamp; muskeg.

? A marshy area.

a bog in which the plant-life consists chiefly of mosses of the genus Sphagnum.

(see quot.).

a boggy area containing long, high banks of silty material.