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l, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.

To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing. Addison.

erts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson.

A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.] What cracker is this same that deafs our ears Shak.

A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster. [R.] Dryden.

A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. Swift.

A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy. [Slang, U. S.]

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

Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting. "Hectorly, ruffianlike swaggering or huffing." Barrow.

Blustering; swaggering. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting, or turbulent. I have a roisting challenge sent amongst The dull and factious nobles of the Greeks. Shak.

To move or play in a careless, swaggering manner, with a frolicsome air; to frolic; to sport; commonly in the form rollicking. [Colloq.] He described his friends as rollicking blades. T. Hook.

To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger. They would ruffle with jurors. Bacon. Gallants who ruffled in silk and embroidery. Sir W. Scott.

One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian. Assaults, if not murders, done at his own doors by that crew of rufflers. Milton.

r snap. -- Snap riveting, riveting in which the rivets have snapheads formed by a die or swaging tool. -- Snap shot, a quick offhand shot, without deliberately taking aim.

A hemispherical or rounded head to a rivet or bolt; also, a swaging tool with a cavity in its face for forming such a rounded head.

rave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness. Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage With solemn touches troubled thoughts. Milton. There reigned a solemn silence over all. Spenser.

set of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).

A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior. [Obs.]

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