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One who boasts; a braggart. [Obs.] Old Play.

An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge. For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks. Cranmer.

To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.

A low place between hills; a vle or valley. Where mountaines rise, umbrageous dales descend. Thomson.

A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.

, or contemptuous motion. See Fico. [Obs.] When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like The bragging Spaniard. Shak.

To boast; to vaunt; to brag. Pope.

Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering. -- n.

A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio. Swift.

A boasting; a bragging. [Obs.]

within the lee. Young. The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Shak.

- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.

A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States. Johnson's Cyc.

A vain or blustering boaster; a braggart; a braggadocio. Sir T. Herbert.

To boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant.

A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler. [Obs.] That flock of stout, bragging rushbucklers. Robynson (More's Utopia).

To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully. What a pleasant it is . . . to swagger at the bar! Arbuthnot. To be great is not . . . to swagger at our footmen. Colier.

To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.

A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer. Milton.

A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach. Jer. Taylor.