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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 ]

p. p. of Beseech. [ 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. [ 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 ]

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

adv. In a doughty manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being doughty; valor; bravery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ See Daughter. ] Daughters. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Doughtier superl. Doughtiest. ] [ OE. duhti, dohti, douhti, brave, valiant, fit, useful, AS. dyhtig; akin to G. tüchtig, Dan. dygtig, Sw. dygdig virtuous, and fr. AS. dugan to avail, be of use, be strong, akin to D. deugen, OHG. tugan, G. taugen, Icel. & Sw. duga, Dan. due, Goth. dugan, but of uncertain origin; cf. Skr. duh to milk, give milk, draw out, or Gr. ty`chh fortune. √68. ] Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sir Thopas wex [ grew ] a doughty swain. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Doughty families, hugging old musty quarrels to their hearts, buffet each other from generation to generation. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Now seldom used, except in irony or burlesque. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Capitalized) A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns mounted in turrets, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She had a displacement of 17, 900 tons at load draft, and a speed of 21 knots per hour. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Any battleship having its main armament entirely of big guns all of one caliber. Since the Dreadnought was built, the caliber of the heaviest guns has increased from 12 in. to 131/2 in., 14 in., and 15 in., and the displacement of the largest batteships from 18, 000 tons to 30, 000 tons and upwards. The term superdreadnought is popularly applied to battleships with such increased displacement and gun caliber. [ Also spelled dreadnaught. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. droght, drougth, dru&yogh_;ð, AS. drugað, from drugian to dry. See Dry, and cf. Drouth, which shows the original final sound. ] 1. Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The drought of March hath pierced to the root. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Thirst; want of drink. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Scarcity; lack. [ 1913 Webster ]

A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of all history. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of dryness of the weather; want of rain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust. [ 1913 Webster ]

Droughty and parched countries. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Dry; thirsty; wanting drink. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy droughty throat. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. “Forethought malice.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sphere that will demand from him forethought, courage, and wisdom. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having forethought. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

p. p. of Fight. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Vigorously contested by both opponents; -- of contests; as, a hard-fought battle; a hard-fought primary election. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

. See New thought, below. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. [ Obs. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. “A high-wrought flood.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. or a. [ Pref. in- + wrought. Cf. Inwork. ] Wrought or worked in or among other things; worked into any fabric so as to from a part of its texture; wrought or adorned, as with figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge,
Inwrought with figures dim. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is a sportive custom for two persons to break this bone by pulling the ends apart to see who will get the longer piece, the securing of which is regarded as a lucky omen, signifying that the person holding it will obtain the gratification of some secret wish. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Methinks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Erroneous thought; mistaken opinion; error. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Badly wrought. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of May. Might. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Any form of belief in mental healing, other than (1) Christian Science and (2) hypnotism or psychotherapy. It was practised in the 19th century, and its central principle was affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances, and his life by the adoption of a favorable mental attitude. As a therapeutic doctrine it stands for silent and absent mental treatment, and the theory that all diseases are mental in origin. As a cult it has its unifying idea the inculcation of workable optimism in contrast with the “old thought” of sin, evil, predestination, and pessimistic resignation. The term is essentially synonymous with the term High Thought, used in England. -- New` Thought"er, n. -- New` Thought"ist, n. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. & adv. See Naught. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & adv. See Aught. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp., p. p., or auxiliary. [ Orig. the preterit of the verb to owe. OE. oughte, aughte, ahte, AS. āhte. √110. See Owe. ] 1. Was or were under obligation to pay; owed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This due obedience which they ought to the king. Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

The love and duty I long have ought you. Spelman. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] said . . . you ought him a thousand pound. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Owned; possessed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The knight the which that castle ought. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be bound in duty or by moral obligation. [ 1913 Webster ]

We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak. Rom. xv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed. “Well ought us work.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

To speak of this as it ought, would ask a volume. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ought not Christ to have suffered these things? Luke xxiv. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Ought is now chiefly employed as an auxiliary verb, expressing fitness, expediency, propriety, moral obligation, or the like, in the action or state indicated by the principal verb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Ought, Should. Both words imply obligation, but ought is the stronger. Should may imply merely an obligation of propriety, expendiency, etc.; ought denotes an obligation of duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being as a thing ought to be; rightness. [ R. ] N. W. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. from Overwork. 1. Wrought upon excessively; overworked. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Extremely agitated or excited; overexcited; -- of people. [ PJC ]

{ } n. The hind part or handle of a plow. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Reach. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Reck, to care. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Uropeltidae; -- so called from their rough tails. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wrought in a rough, unfinished way; worked over coarsely. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. See Dreadnought, above. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]