'Bought' definitions:
Definition of 'Bought'
From: GCIDE
- Bought \Bought\, p. a. Purchased; bribed. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bought'
From: GCIDE
- Bought \Bought\, n. [Cf. Dan. bugt bend, turning, Icel. bug?a. Cf. Bight, Bout, and see Bow to bend.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- The boughts of the fore legs. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The part of a sling that contains the stone. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bought'
From: GCIDE
- Buy \Buy\ (b[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bought (b[add]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Buying (b[imac]"[i^]ng).] [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. [1913 Webster]
- Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries. --B. Franklin. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. --Prov. xxiii. 23. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]