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A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds. Hoblyn.

To boast; to be proud. God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Gal. vi. 14 No one . . . should glory in his prosperity. Richardson.

A fierce, intractable creature. I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. Shak.

the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded. Temples proud to meet their gods halfway. Young.

yed. A noble stroke he lifted high, Which hung not, but so swift with tempest fell On the proud crest of Satan. Milton. To hang around, to loiter idly about. -- To hang back, to hesitate; to falter; to be reluctant. "If any one among you hangs back." Jowett (Thucyd.). -- To hang by the eyelids. (a) To hang by a very…

High; elevated; hence, haughty; proud. [Obs.] Shak.

Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing. A woman of a haughty and imperious nature. Clarendon.

Lofty; haughty. [Obs.] Through support of countenance proud and hault. Spenser.

Haughty. [Obs.] "Nations proud and haut." Milton.

Haughty; proud. [Obs.] Chaucer.

son; -- in this sense used substantively. Chaucer. I stand to answer thee, Or any he, the proudest of thy sort. Shak.

Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; -- used in a bad sense. An high look and a proud heart . . . is sin. Prov. xxi. 4. His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot. Clarendon.

Elevated; proud. "High-flown hopes." Denham.

Proud; arrogant. [Obs.] Be not high-minded, but fear. Rom. xi. 20.

A horse that moves with a high step or proud gait; hence, a person having a proud bearing. [Colloq.]

Toward this place; hither. Marching hitherward in proud array. Shak.

Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest. God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Jas. iv. 6. She should be humble who would please. Prior. With…

" Mitford. Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns With an imperial voice. Shak. To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts, and worthy thee. Dryden. He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle. E. Everett.

he author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise. Gray. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him -- envy. Macaulay.

ucer. Can you not see or will ye not observe . . . How insolent of late he is become, How proud, how peremptory Shak.