Definition of bough

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Bough (n.) An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch..

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Boughten :: Boughten (a.) Purchased; not obtained or produced at home.
Cost :: Cost (v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit..
Mercable :: Mercable (a.) Capable of being bought or sold.
Ris :: Ris (n.) A bough or branch; a twig.
Pennyworth :: Pennyworth (n.) A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny.
Purchasable :: Purchasable (a.) Capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained for a consideration; hence, venal; corrupt..
Bought :: Bought (n.) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
Dependent :: Dependent (a.) Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf..
Wike :: Wike (n.) A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in common ground, etc.; -- called also wicker..
Dear-bought :: Dear-bought (a.) Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience..
Nuthook :: Nuthook (n.) A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts.
Striking :: Striker (n.) A blackmailer in politics; also, one whose political influence can be bought..
Arundelian :: Arundelian (a.) Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624..
Duddery :: Duddery (n.) A place where rags are bought and kept for sale.
Swing :: Swing (n.) A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise..
Cue :: Cue (n.) A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing.
Tawdry :: Tawdry (n.) A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general..
Shaken :: Shaken (a.) Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough..
Brash :: Brash (n.) Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges..
Branch :: Branch (n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant..
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