Word Meanings - BOUGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. Spenser. The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne. 2. The part of a sling that contains the stone.

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• SLOW
  A moth. Rom. of R.
• SLAPE
  Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical. Slape ale, plain ale, as opposed to medicated or mixed ale.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• SERPENTARIUS
  A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus.
• SLUBBERDEGULLION
  A mean, dirty wretch.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• SLOUGHING
  The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• SLAW; SLAWEN
  p. p. of Slee, to slay. With a sword drawn out he would have slaw himself. Wyclif (Acts xvi.
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• SLIMNESS
  The quality or state of being slim.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• SLIVE
  To cut; to split; to separate. Holland.
• SLEDDING
  1. The act of transporting or riding on a sled. 2. The state of the snow which admits of the running of sleds; as, the sledding is good.
• SLOWBACK
  A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. Dr. Favour.
• SLUGS
  Half-roasted ore.
• SLAUGHTER
  1. To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. Shak. 2. To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
• SERPENTINOUS
  Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE
  A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• SLUMP
  The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• SCINTILLOUSLY
  In a scintillant manner.
• GRISLY
  Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible,
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• TUSSLE
  To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.
• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• ROSLAND
  heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
• CROSSLY
  Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
• BESLUBBER
  To beslobber.