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. "Well ought us work." Chaucer.
To speak of this as it ought, would ask a volume.
Milton.
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things?
Luke xxiv. 26.
Ought is now chiefly employed as an auxiliary verb, expressing fitness,
expediency, propriety, moral obligation, or the like, in the action or
state indicated by the principal verb.
Syn. -- Ought, Should. Both words imply obligation, but ought is the
stronger. Should may imply merely an obligation of propriety,
expendiency, etc.; ought denotes an obligation of duty.
Ought"ness (?), n. The state of being as a thing ought to be;
rightness. [R.] N. W. Taylor.
Ough"where` (?), adv. [AS. hwær.] Anywhere; somewhere. See Owher.
[Obs.]
Ouis"ti*ti (?), n. [F.] (Zoöl.) See Wistit.
Oul (?), n. An awl. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Oul, n. An owl. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Ou"la*chan (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Eulachon.
Ounce (?), n. [F. once, fr. L. uncia a twelfth, the twelfth part of a
pound or of a foot: cf. Gr. &?; bulk, mass, atom. Cf. 2d Inch, Oke.] 1.
A weight, the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois, and containing
437&?; grains.