A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. [Obs.] Spenser. The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne.
The part of a sling that contains the stone. [Obs.]
imp. & p. p. of Buy.
Purchased; bribed.
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