Definition of bough

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Bough (n.) A gallows.

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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.
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..
Tawdry :: Tawdry (superl.) Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.
Bough :: Bough (n.) A gallows.
Boughty :: Boughty (a.) Bending.
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..
Junk :: "Junk (n.) Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers..
Dear-bought :: Dear-bought (a.) Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience..
Shaken :: Shaken (a.) Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough..
Boughten :: Boughten (a.) Purchased; not obtained or produced at home.
Cue :: Cue (n.) A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing.
Bought :: Bought () imp. & p. p. of Buy.
Bargain :: Bargain (n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap..
Tawdry :: Tawdry (n.) A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general..
Price :: Price (n. & v.) The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost..
Purchasable :: Purchasable (a.) Capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained for a consideration; hence, venal; corrupt..
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..
Bought :: Bought (p. a.) Purchased; bribed.
Dependent :: Dependent (a.) Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf..
Ris :: Ris (n.) A bough or branch; a twig.
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