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

A distemper in hogs, indicated by staggering and loss of appetite. Youatt.

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

A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the CC.

ody, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy. By giddy head and staggering legs betrayed. Tate.

Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; -- said of pugilists. [Cant or Slang]

n into the hand, and by which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt. This brandish'dagger I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast. Dryden.

A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.

quip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array. Harnessed in rugged steel. Rowe. A gay dagger, Harnessed well and sharp as point of spear. Chaucer.

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

Vivid; strong or forcible in representation; hence, exaggerated; as, high-colored description.

A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.

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

to publicize [e.g. a product or a future event] insistently, in a manner exaggerating the importance of; to promote flamboyantly. [wns=1] [WordNet 1.5]

A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect. Our common forms of compliment are almos…

Relating to, containing, or of the nature of, hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth; as, an hyperbolical expression. "This hyperbolical epitaph." Fuller. Hyperbolic functions (Math.), certain functions which have relations to the hyperbola corresponding to those which sines, cosine…

With exaggeration; in a manner to express more or less than the truth. Sir W. Raleigh.

To speak or write with exaggeration. Bp. Montagu.

Exaggerated; excessive; hyperbolical. [Obs.] Hyperthetical or superlative . . . expression. Chapman.

ccurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits.