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Definition of Bought

Bought
Bought Bought, n. [Cf. Dan. bugt bend, turning, Icel. bug?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.]
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Bought Bought, imp. & p. p. of Buy.
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Bought Bought, p. a. Purchased; bribed.
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Buy Buy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bought; p. pr. & vb. n. Buying.] [OE. buggen, buggen, bien, AS. bycgan, akin to OS. buggean, Goth. bugjan.] 1. To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries. --B. Franklin. 2. To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain. Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. --Prov. xxiii. 23. To buy again. See Againbuy. [Obs.] --Chaucer. To buy off. (a) To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience. (b) To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one from a party. To buy out (a) To buy off, or detach from. --Shak. (b) To purchase the share or shares of in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place; as, A buys out B. (c) To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good will of a business. To buy in, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership. To buy on credit, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day. To buy the refusal (of anything), to give a consideration for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future time.

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