Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding in boughs.
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Examples
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She used to take her books there, and sit for hours reading on a mossy bank under one of the boughy beeches, with Argus at her feet.
Vixen, Volume II. 1875
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If we did not hear, however, we did listen, not without a reasonable expectation; that at least I have to tell, -- only some utterly uncivilized, big-throated owl hooted loud and dismally in the drear and boughy wilderness, plainly not nervous about his solitary life, nor afraid to hear the echoes of his voice there.
The Maine Woods 1858
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Perch*d on the ccdar*s topmoft boughy And gay wkft gilded wings.
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