a. Also 6–7 boughie. [f. BOUGH sb. + -Y1.] Abounding in boughs.

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1570.  Levins, Manip., 111. Boughy, ramosus.

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1610.  G. Fletcher, Christ’s Vict., in Farr’s S. P. (1847), 62. Her watchman, arm’d with boughie crest.

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1832.  J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXXI. 988. Surprising Sir Ralph … on briary, broomy, and boughy ground.

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1848.  Thoreau, Maine W., i. (1867), 37. The drear and boughy wilderness.

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