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Was or were under obligation to pay; owed. [Obs.] This due obedience which they ought to the king. Tyndale. The love and duty I long have ought you. Spelman. [He] said . . . you ought him a thousand pound. Shak.

The state of being as a thing ought to be; rightness. [R.] N. W. Taylor.

of Aby. [Obs.]

Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. Bouvier.

Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought or expedient.

of Beseech.

imp. & p. p. of Bethink.

Embroidered. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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.

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

In a doughty manner.

The quality of being doughty; valor; bravery.

Daughters. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero. Sir Thopas wex [grew] a doughty swain. Chaucer. Doughty families, hugging old musty quarrels to their hearts, buffet each other from generation to generation. Motley.

tleship having its main armament entirely of big guns all of one caliber. Since the Dreadnought was built, the caliber of the heaviest guns has increased from 12 in. to 13½ in., 14 in., and 15 in., and the displacement of the largest batteships from 18,000 tons to 30,000 tons and upwards. The term superdreadnought is p…

ss of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity. The drought of March hath pierced to the root. Chaucer. In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. Dryden.

A state of dryness of the weather; want of rain.

Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust. Droughty and parched countries. Ray.