Bought (?), imp. & p. p. of Buy.

Bought (?), n. [Cf. Dan. bugt bend, turning, Icel. bug?a. Cf. Bight, Bout, and see Bow to bend.]

1. A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. [Obs.] Spenser.

The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne.

2. The part of a sling that contains the stone. [Obs.]

Bought , p. a. Purchased; bribed.

-- Webster's unabridged 1913