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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An obsolete or dialectal form of might, preterit of may.
  2. n. An obsolete or dialectal variant of moth.

Wiktionary

  1. v. Alternative form of might.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. Might.

Examples

  • “He "mought" keep us all night, but he'd "ruther not, as we could git a place to stay down the spur.”

    A Knight of the Cumberland

  • “Why, yas, I reckon yo 'mought's well -- but seem's like yo' allus a-wantin 'to gad.”

    The Gold Girl

  • “Or listen to the President while keeping you mought shut.”

    Defiant Wilson raises more than $200,000 after outburst

  • “The part of Epimetheus mought well become Prometheus, in the case of discontentments: for there is not a better provision against them.”

    The Essays

  • “Queen Elizabeth of England, with bills to sign, but he would always first put her into some discourse of estate, that she mought the less mind the bills.”

    The Essays

  • “Surely Comineus mought have made the same judgment also, if it had pleased him, of his second master, Lewis the”

    The Essays

  • “But it mought be applied likewise to Pluto, taking him for the devil.”

    The Essays

  • “For so much was then subject to demonstration, that the globe of the earth had great parts beyond the Atlantic, which mought be probably conceived not to be all sea: and adding thereto the tradition in”

    The Essays

  • “And hereafter may do for that, as she turnes out: for one mought be loth to part with her, mayhap, so verry soon too; espessially if she was to make the notable landlady your Honner put into my head.”

    Clarissa Harlowe

  • “Why, to speak de troof, massa, him not so berry well as mought be.”

    The Gold-Bug

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