\Buy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bought}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Buying}.] [OE. buggen, buggen, bien, AS. bycgan, akin to OS.
buggean, Goth. bugjan.]
1. To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an
   accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing
   to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value;
   to purchase; -- opposed to sell.
         Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou
         wilt sell thy necessaries.            --B. Franklin.
2. To acquire or procure by something given or done in
   exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or
   sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.
         Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and
         instruction, and understanding.       --Prov. xxiii.
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{To buy again}. See {Againbuy}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{To buy off}.
   (a) To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield
       by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience.
   (b) To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one
       from a party.
{To buy out}
   (a) To buy off, or detach from. --Shak.
   (b) To purchase the share or shares of in a stock, fund,
       or partnership, by which the seller is separated from
       the company, and the purchaser takes his place; as, A
       buys out B.
   (c) To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good
       will of a business.
{To buy in}, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership.
{To buy on credit}, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in
   law, to make payment at a future day.
{To buy the refusal} (of anything), to give a consideration
   for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future
   time.

\Buy\, v. i.
To negotiate or treat about a purchase.
      I will buy with you, sell with you.      --Shak.