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To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] Shak.

To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self- gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc. Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride. Spenser. I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. Zech. ix. 6.…

Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.

Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery. Burke.

Bragging; vainly boasting.

Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant. I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational nor impossible. Dryden.

A person of consideration or importance. Before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody. Acts v. 36.

In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously. Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after. Bp. Hall.

To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass. Topping all others in boasting. Shak. Edmund the base shall top the legitimate. Shak.

stablished principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals. Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth. 2 Cor. vii. 14.

ething unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting. For what is your life It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James iv. 14.

Talking idly; boasting; vaunting. -- Va"por*ing*ly, adv.

Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.