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on." Shak. Now learn the difference, at your proper cost, Betwixt true valor and an empty boast. Dryden.

In a proud manner; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily; arrogantly; boastfully. Proudly he marches on, and void of fear. Addison.

To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras.

The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.

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

One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. [Obs.] Burton.

g quiescent. "Quiescence, bodily and mental." H. Spencer. Deeds will be done; -- while be boasts his quiescence. R. Browning.

liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage. "Who boast'st release from hell." Milton.

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

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

One who boasts.

A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon.

Springing from vainglory or vanity; vain; boastful. Dryden.

r; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips.

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

Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech. [Colloq.& Humorous]

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.

A boastful person. [Slang]

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.

One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. Shak.