- Marsh has smell, good at first - Sphagnum source - Swamp - A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable
matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a
morass. - A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in
a marsh or swamp. - To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to
sink and stick, as in mud and mire.