Definition of ought

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Ought (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed..

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Giddy-head :: Giddy-head (n.) A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment..
Modal :: Modal (a.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought..
Repute :: Repute (v. t.) To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.
Wanton :: Wanton (n.) One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.
Original :: Original (a.) Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture..
Crude :: Crude (superl.) Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.
Fetch :: Fetch (n.) A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice..
Traipse :: Traipse (v. i.) To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner..
Horse-chestnut :: Horse-chestnut (n.) The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes..
Reconvention :: Reconvention (n.) A cross demand; an action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge.
Romanticism :: Romanticism (n.) A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style..
Museful :: Museful (a.) Meditative; thoughtfully silent.
Pit :: Pit (n.) An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats..
Thinkable :: Thinkable (a.) Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable.
Snare :: Snare (n.) Hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble..
Skim :: Skim (v. t.) Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim a book or a newspaper..
Betty :: Betty (n.) A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask..
Thoughtful :: Thoughtful (a.) Anxious; solicitous; concerned.
Astigmatism :: Astigmatism (n.) A defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistinctness of vision..
Foughten :: Foughten () p. p. of Fight.
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