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An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder.

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.

Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though. Although all shall be offended, yet will no I. Mark xiv. 29.

Obtained; seized. Spenser.

Anything; any part. [Also written ought.] There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord has spoken. Josh. xxi. 45 But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. Addison.

Property; possession. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

of Beseech.

Out of one's senses; distracted; mad. [Obs.] Shak.

Delivered; committed in trust. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. of Bethink.

Embroidered. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax. Close borough, or Pocket borough, a borough having the right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination is in the hands of a single person. -- Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the time of the…

A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone.

See Headborough. [Obs.]

A headborough; a borsholder.

The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.

One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.

The practices of a boroughmonger.