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A great boaster; a blusterer.

Boasting; insincere or empty talk. [Slang]

Full of gas; like gas. Hence: [Colloq.] Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.

ure of the earth is taken into account, as in the surveys of States, or of long lines of coast.

A gigantic clam (Glycimeris generosa) of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food.

-- German process (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. Raymond. -- German sarsaparilla, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. -- German sausage, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. -- German silver (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough,…

A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee.

Causeway, a vast collection of basaltic pillars, in the county of Antrim on the northern coast of Ireland.

A strongly fortified town on the south coast of Spain, held by the British since 1704; hence, an impregnable stronghold.

The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; -- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.

like a girdle; as, to gird on armor or a sword. Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. 1 Kings xx. 11. -- To gird up, to bind tightly with a girdle; to support and strengthen, as with a girdle. He girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab. 1 Kings xviii. 46. Gird up the loins o…

Boast; a triumphing. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson. Internal gloriation or triumph of the mind. Hobbes.

A boaster. [Obs.] Greene.

A boaster. [Obs.] Fuller.

Eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious. [Obs.] Most miserable Is the desire that's glorious. Shak.

ecures general praise or honor; that which brings or gives renown; an object of pride or boast; the occasion of praise; excellency; brilliancy; splendor. Think it no glory to swell in tyranny. Sir P. Sidney. Jewels lose their glory if neglected. Shak. Your sex's glory 't is to shine unknown. Young.

s of an engraved block. Knight. -- Gold cloth. See Cloth of gold, under Cloth. -- Gold Coast, a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa. -- Gold cradle. (Mining) See Cradle, n., 7. -- Gold diggings, the places, or region, where gold is found by digging in sand and gravel from which it is separated by washing.…

A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

ear grass, Same as Meadow grass (above). Squirrel-tail grass, troublesome to animals. Seacoast and Northwest. Hordeum jubatum. Switch grass, hay, cut young. Panicum virgatum. Timothy, cut young, the best of hay. North. Phleum pratense. Velvet grass, hay on poor soil. South. Holcus lanatus. Vernal grass, pasture, hay, l…

i*met"ric*al*ly, adv. Gravimetric analysis (Chem.), analysis in which the amounts of the coastituents are determined by weight; -- in distinction from volumetric analysis.