| n. & adv. | 1. | See Aught. |
| imp., p. p | 1. | Was or were under obligation to pay; owed.This due obedience which they ought to the king. - Tyndale. The love and duty I long have ought you. - Spelman. [He] said . . . you ought him a thousand pound. - Shak. |
| 2. | Owned; possessed.The knight the which that castle ought. - Spenser. |
| 3. | To be bound in duty or by moral obligation.We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak. - Rom. xv. 1. |
| 4. | To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; - in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed.To speak of this as it ought, would ask a volume. - Milton. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things? - Luke xxiv. 26. |