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To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth. By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: .. not of works, lest any man should boast. E…

Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke.

A northern constellation, containing the bright star Arcturus.

One of the shafts of a clustered column. [Written also bowtel, boltel, boultell, etc.]

bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. Wordsworth. To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. Tyndall.

The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding. " My brain is too dull." Sir W. Scott.

d never bred before. Carpenter. Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast. Shak.

One who breeds or originates quarrels. [Obs.] "No telltale nor no breedbate." Shak.

Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.

With lively intelligence; intelligently. Looking brightly into the mother's face. Hawthorne.

Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

sembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Taylor.…

ind buckler (Naut.), a solid buckler. -- Buckler mustard (Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields. -- Buckler thorn, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a buckler. See Christ's thorn. -- Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckler…

A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades. At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun, And the bright Bull receives him. Thomson.

boots and gloves. -- Button shell (Zoöl.), a small, univalve marine shell of the genus Rotella. -- Button snakeroot. (Bot.) (a) The American composite genus Liatris, having rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads. -- Button tree (…

interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means.

One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.

A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.

A beautuful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions.

A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo.