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A boaster. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. [Obs.] "To aggravate thy store." Shak.

Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances.

In an aggravating manner.

The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

Tending to aggravate. Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n. No aggressive movement was made. Macaulay.

See Ajouan.

The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

Much talking; prattle; chatter. Byron.

Of or pertaining to Bavaria. -- n.

A kind of cloak or surtout. [Obs.] Johnson. Let the looped bavaroy the fop embrace. Gay.

Bravado. [Obs.] Fanshawe.

Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace. In spite of our host's bravado. Irving.

A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.

The leader or driver of the camels in caravan.

A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. [Written also caravanserai and caravansera.]

A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca.

A West Indian tree (Turpinia occidentalis) of the family Staphyleaceæ.

orseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade. He brought back war-worn cavalcade to the city. Prescott.

A cavalier; a gallant; a libertine. Shak.