Ought

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.

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