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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.

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

hich a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.

Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.

swarming; thronged. The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. Macaulay.

ng to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624.

ommodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]

The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap. She was too fond of her most filthy bargain. Shak. Bargain and sale (Law), a species of conveyance, by which the bargainor contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. Th…

To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands. Pennant.

Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them. [Prov. Eng.]

A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation. Camden.

A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.

g him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc. A horse . . . which Philip had bought . . . and because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars. J. Brende.

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

ush from the wheel as it passed. [As leaves] have with one winter's brush Fell from their boughts. Shak.