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noun

Bout n.

As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round. "In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out." "The prince... has taken me in his train, so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout."

A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout. "The gentleman will, for his honor's sake, have one bout with you; he can not by the duello avoid it."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bout" Quotes from Famous Books

... hearin' the boys was makin' big money up in that crank community, an' that the town was boomin', I was plum fool enough to drop my job here an' be a art-worker up to Rose-Cross—that's where the shops was; 'bout three mile back of his house ...

— Iole • Robert W. Chambers

... an impious thing that the wives of the laymen, Should use Pagan words 'bout a pistil and stamen, Let the heir break his head while they fester a Dahlia, And the babe die of pap as they talk ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12, - Issue 326, August 9, 1828 • Various

... only the little gal next door—I means de young lady ob de 'stablishment, wat de poor, foolish, humped-shouldered baby talking about," Dinah explained. "He calls her 'Angy,' I s'pose, 'cause she's so purty like; and you tells him 'bout dem hebbenly kine of people, so de say, mos' ebbery night. Does you think dar is ...

— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield

... But it's lucky the passage is so plain; there's no manoeuvring to mention. We get under way before the wind, and run right so till we begin to get foul of the island; then we haul our wind and lie as near south-east as may be till we're on that line; 'bout ship there and stand straight out on the port tack. ...

— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... country which'm lit by de smile ob de Lord; whar dar ain't no sickness, no pain, no sorrer, no dyin'; fur dat kingdom whar de Lord reigns; whar trufh flows on like a riber; whar righteousness springs up like de grass, an' lub draps down like de dew, an' cobers de face ob de groun'; whar you woan't gwo 'bout wid no crutch; whar you woan't lib in no ole cabin like dis, an' eat hoecake an' salt pork in sorrer an' heabiness ob soul; but whar you'll run an' not be weary, an' walk an' not be faint; whar you'll hab a hous'n builded ob ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

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