ppl. a. [f. BOUGH sb. 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 boughd trees.
18056. 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-boughd pine.