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An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.

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.

Purchased; not obtained or produced at home. Coleridge.

Bending. [Obs.] Sherwood.

A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.

A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.

f Catch.

Whooping cough.

, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough. Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow.

A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. Nares.

To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.

One who coughs.

A female descendant; a woman. This woman, being a daughter of Abraham. Luke xiii. 16. Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land. Gen. xxxiv. 1.

The wife of one's son.

The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter.

Becoming a daughter; filial. Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish.

Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.

Torn asunder; separated. [Obs.] "His greedy throat . . . distraught." Spenser.

Distracted. [Obs.] Spenser.

A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow.