BOGUE

bogue, david (1750-1825), british nonconformist divine, was born in the parish of coldingham, berwickshire. after a course of study in edinburgh, he was licensed to preach by the church of scotland, but made his way to london (1721), where he taught in schools at edmonton, hampstead and camberwell. he then settled as minister of the congregational church at gosport in hampshire (1777), and to his pastoral duties added the charge of an institution for preparing men for the ministry. it was the age of the new-born missionary enterprise, and bogue's academy was in a very large measure the seed from which the london missionary society took its growth. bogue himself would have gone to india in 1796 but for the opposition of the east india company. he also had much to do with founding the british and foreign bible society and the religious tract society, and in conjunction with james bennet, minister at romsey, wrote a well-known _history of dissenters_ (3 vols., 1809). another of his writings was an _essay on the divine authority of the new testament_. he died at brighton on the 25th of october 1825. bogus (of uncertain origin, possibly connected with the fr. _bagasse_, sugar-cane refuse), a slang word, originally used in america of the apparatus employed in counterfeiting coins, and now generally of any sham or spurious transaction. bohea (a word derived from the wu-i hills in the fuhkien province of china, b being substituted for w or v), a kind of black tea (q.v.), or, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, tea generally, as in pope's line, "so past her time 'twixt reading and bohea." later the name "bohea" has been applied to an inferior quality of tea grown late in the season.