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Webster 1913 Edition


Bought

Bought

,
Noun.
[Cf. Dan.
bugt
bend, turning, Icel.
bug[GREEK]a
. Cf.
Bight
,
Bout
, and see
Bow
to bend.]
1.
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.
2.
The part of a sling that contains the stone.
[Obs.]

Bought

,
imp.
&
p.
p.
of
Buy
.

Bought

,
p.
Adj.
Purchased; bribed.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bought

BOUGHT

, bast, pret. and pp. of buy. [See Buy.]

BOUGHT

,
Noun.
bawt.
1.
A twist; a link; a knot; a flexure, or bend.
2.
The part of a sling that contains the stone.