Definition of bough

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Bough (n.) A gallows.

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Mercable :: Mercable (a.) Capable of being bought or sold.
Bower :: Bower (n.) A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess..
Dear-bought :: Dear-bought (a.) Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience..
Dunnage :: Dunnage (n.) Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion..
Boughty :: Boughty (a.) Bending.
Commodity :: Commodity (n.) That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc..
Badger :: Badger (n.) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
Bargain :: Bargain (n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap..
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..
Shaken :: Shaken (a.) Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough..
Acceptance :: Acceptance (n.) An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner..
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..
Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc..
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.
Booth :: Booth (n.) A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation..
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.
Ramage :: Ramage (n.) Boughs or branches.
Blink :: Blink (pl.) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them..
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