Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bought \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 \Bought\,
   imp. & p. p. of {Buy}.

Bought \Bought\, p. a.
   Purchased; bribed.

Buy \Buy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bought}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Buying}.] [OE. buggen, buggen, bien, AS. bycgan, akin to OS.
   buggean, Goth. bugjan.]
   1. To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an
      accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing
      to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value;
      to purchase; -- opposed to sell.

            Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou
            wilt sell thy necessaries.            --B. Franklin.

   2. To acquire or procure by something given or done in
      exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or
      sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.

            Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and
            instruction, and understanding.       --Prov. xxiii.
                                                  23.

   {To buy again}. See {Againbuy}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   {To buy off}.
      (a) To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield
          by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience.
      (b) To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one
          from a party.

   {To buy out}
      (a) To buy off, or detach from. --Shak.
      (b) To purchase the share or shares of in a stock, fund,
          or partnership, by which the seller is separated from
          the company, and the purchaser takes his place; as, A
          buys out B.
      (c) To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good
          will of a business.

   {To buy in}, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership.

   {To buy on credit}, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in
      law, to make payment at a future day.

   {To buy the refusal} (of anything), to give a consideration
      for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future
      time.

Source : WordNet®

buy
     n : an advantageous purchase; "she got a bargain at the
         auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price" [syn:
         {bargain}, {steal}]
     [also: {bought}]

buy
     v 1: obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial
          transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The
          conglomerate acquired a new company"; "She buys for the
          big department store" [syn: {purchase}] [ant: {sell}]
     2: make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or
        influence; "This judge can be bought" [syn: {bribe}, {corrupt},
         {grease one's palms}]
     3: acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange; "She wanted to
        buy his love with her dedication to him and his work"
     4: accept as true; "I can't buy this story"
     5: be worth or be capable of buying; "This sum will buy you a
        ride on the train"
     [also: {bought}]

bought
     See {buy}