imp. & p. p. of Aby. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Premeditation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. an action taken after another action and related to the first action, which would normally or optimally be done along with the first action; -- as, to do something as an afterthought. [ PJC ]

3. a feature or part added to a device, not thought of in its original design. [ PJC ]

conj. [ All + though; OE. al thagh. ] Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though. [ 1913 Webster ]

Although all shall be offended, yet will not I. Mark xiv. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Although, Though. Although, which originally was perhaps more emphatic than though, is now interchangeable with it in the sense given above. Euphonic consideration determines the choice. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ The past tense of an old v. areach or arreach. Cf. Reach, obs. pret. raught. ] Obtained; seized. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ AS. &unr_;ht, fr. āgan to own, p. p. āhte. ] Property; possession. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. aught, ought, awiht, AS. āwiht, ā ever + wiht. √136. See Aye ever, and Whit, Wight. ] Anything; any part. [ Also written ought. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord has spoken. Josh. xxi. 45 [ 1913 Webster ]

But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. At all; in any degree. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a vigorous, loud laugh, expressing a strong amusement. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. to laugh a deep, hearty laugh. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

p. p. of Beseech. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. be- + straught; prob. here used for distraught. ] Out of one's senses; distracted; mad. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. [ p. p. of OE. bitechen, AS. bet&aemacr_;can, to assign, deliver. See Teach. ] Delivered; committed in trust. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Bethink. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. be- + wrought, p. p. of work, v. t. ] Embroidered. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. burgh, burw, boru, port, town, burrow, AS. burh, burg; akin to Icel., Sw., & Dan. borg, OS. & D. burg, OHG. puruc, purc, MHG. burc, G. burg, Goth. baúrgs; and from the root of AS. beorgan to hide, save, defend, G. bergen; or perh. from that of AS. beorg hill, mountain. √95. See Bury, v. t., and cf. Burrow, Burg, Bury, n., Burgess, Iceberg, Borrow, Harbor, Hauberk. ] 1. In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Burrill. Erskine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax. [ 1913 Webster ]

Close borough, or
Pocket borough, a borough having the right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination is in the hands of a single person. --
Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the time of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, contained but few voters, yet retained the privilege of sending a member to Parliament. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Borrow. ] (O. Eng. Law) (a) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other. (b) The pledge or surety thus given. Blackstone. Tomlins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Law) A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Headborough. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A headborough; a borsholder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Burgomaster. ] The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The practices of a boroughmonger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bogh, AS. bōg, bōh, bough, shoulder; akin to Icel. bōgr shoulder, bow of a ship, Sw. bog, Dan. bov, OHG. buog, G. bug, and to Gr.&unr_; ( for &unr_; ) forearm, Skr. bāhu (for bhāghu) arm. √88, 251. Cf. Bow of a ship. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gallows. [ Archaic ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having no limbs. Opposite of limbed.
Syn. -- limbless. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. lacking a bough or boughs. Opposite of boughed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. Dan. bugt bend, turning, Icel. bug&unr_;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 ]

imp. & p. p. of Buy. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. Purchased; bribed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Purchased; not obtained or produced at home. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bending. [ Obs. ] Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a productive insight.
Syn. -- discovery, find. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a sudden change of situation, such as making an important discovery, that permits further rapid advances toward a goal. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

3. (Mil.) a penetration of an enemy's defense in depth and strength. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A light, enclosed carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Catch. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ For chink cough; cf. As. cincung long laughter, Scot. kink a violent fit of coughing, akin to MHG. kīchen to pant. Cf. Kinknaust, Cough. ] Whooping cough. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. choughe, kowe (and cf. OE. ca), fr. AS. ceó; cf. also D. kauw, OHG. chāha; perh. akin to E. caw. √22. Cf. Caddow. ] (Zool.) A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. clough, cloghe, clou, clewch, AS. (assumed) clōh, akin to G. klinge ravine. ] 1. A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Com.) An allowance in weighing. See Cloff. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Coughed p. pr. & vb. n. Coughing. ] [ Cf. D. kuchen, MHG. k&unr_;chen to breathe, G. keuchen to pant, and E. chincough, the first part of which is prob. akin to cough; cf. also E. choke. ] To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cough down, to silence or put down (an objectionable speaker) by simulated coughing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cg. D. kuch. See Cough, v. i. ] 1. A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stomach cough,
Ear cough, cough due to irritation in the stomach or ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who coughs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Daughters obs. pl. Daughtren [ OE. doughter, doghter, dohter, AS. dohtor, dohter; akin to OS. dohtar, D. dochter, G. tochter, Icel. dōttir, Sw. dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. daúhtar, OSlav. dŭshti, Russ. doche, Lith. duktē, Gr. qyga`thr, Zend. dughdhar, Skr. duhit&rsdot_;; possibly originally, the milker, cf. Skr. duh to milk. √68, 245. ] 1. The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A female descendant; a woman. [ 1913 Webster ]

This woman, being a daughter of Abraham. Luke xiii. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land. Gen. xxxiv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A son's wife; a daughter-in-law. [ 1913 Webster ]

And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. Ruth. i. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A term of address indicating parental interest. [ 1913 Webster ]

Daughter, be of good comfort. Matt. ix. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

Daughter cell (Biol.), one of the cells formed by cell division. See Cell division, under Division. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Daughters-in-law. The wife of one's son. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Becoming a daughter; filial. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. [ OE. distract, distrauht. See Distract, a. ] 1. Torn asunder; separated. [ Obs. ] “His greedy throat . . . distraught.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Distracted; perplexed. “Distraught twixt fear and pity.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To doubt betwixt our senses and our souls
Which are the most distraught and full of pain. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Distracted. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]