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‖prop. n. [ Named from Bougainville, the French navigator. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceæ, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bouged [ Variant of bulge. Cf. Bowge. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To swell out. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bilge. [ Obs. ] “Their ship bouged.” Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To stave in; to bilge. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bouche mouth, victuals. ] Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ They ] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady or two, that fainted . . . with fasting. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gouged p. pr. & vb. n. Gouging ] 1. To scoop out with a gouge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb. [ K S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some parts of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. [ Slang, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. bougette sack, bag. Cf. Budget. ] (Her.) A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; -- also called water bouget. [ 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. [ F. bougie wax candle, bougie, fr. Bougie, Bugia, a town of North Africa, from which these candles were first imported into Europe. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Surg.) A long, flexible instrument, that is introduced into the urethra, esophagus, etc., to remove obstructions, or for the other purposes. It was originally made of waxed linen rolled into cylindrical form. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pharm.) A long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F., lit., decimal candle. ] A photometric standard used in France, having the value of one twentieth of the Violle platinum standard, or slightly less than a British standard candle. Called also decimal candle. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]