boughed, ppl. a.
(baʊd)
[f. bough n. and v.1 + -ed.]
a. Having boughs (chiefly with descriptive adj., as dark-boughed, low-boughed); also, covered or shaded with boughs. b. Stripped of (its) boughs.
| c 1400 Lay le Freine 169 An asche..fair and heighe, Wele y-bowed. 1725 Sloane Jamaica II. 304 They build their nests in low bough'd trees. 1805–6 Coleridge 3 Graves iii. iii, A mossy track all over boughed. 1852 Tupper Proverb. Philos. 391 The tree is felled, and boughed, and bare. 1877 M. Arnold Grande Chartreuse, Many a dark-bough'd pine. |