buy (sense 2 (i) is obs.)
1.
“buy and sell,” barter,
traffic with, in a bad sense
H8 I. i. 192
“Does and sell his
honour”
; so “bought and
sold,” betrayed Err. III. i.
72, John V. iv. 10,
R3 V. iii. 306
“Dickon thy master is
bought and sold.”
2.
“buy out,” (i) ransom,
redeem
Err. I. ii. 5
“not being able to buy
out his life”
; (ii) get rid of by a money payment
John III. i. 164
“the curse that money
may buy out,”
1H4 IV. ii. 24
“bought out their
services”
(= paid money to be released from service in
the army),
Ham. III. iii. 60
“Buys out the
law.”
