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Bold; forward; aggressive.

Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his years. I have known men disagreeably forward from their shyness. T. Arnold.

Boldness; confidence; assurance; want of due reserve or modesty. In France it is usual to bring children into company, and cherish in them, from their infancy, a kind of forwardness and assurance. Addison.

Frankness; openness; unreservedness. I emboldened spake and freedom used. Milton.

Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. Berkeley. -- a.

o act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend. [Obs.] Fortune friends the bold. Spenser.

untenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front. With smiling fronts encountering. Shak. The inhabitants showed a bold front. Macaulay.

e, unyielding spirit. (b) To be victor in a game. [Colloq.] -- To die game, to maintain a bold, unyielding spirit to the last; to die fighting.

A man of extraordinari bulk and stature. Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise. Milton.

Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime. -- Glar"ing*ly, adv.

t is an inextricable difficulty; and to cut the Gordian knot is to remove a difficulty by bold and energetic measures.

grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake. "Our grand foe, Satan." Milton. Making so bold . . . to unseal Their grand commission. Shak.

Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence. A bound of graceful hardihood. Wordsworth. It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity. Buckminster.

Boldly; stoutly; resolutely. Wyclif.

Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action. [Obs.] Changing hardiment with great Glendower. Shak.

Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. Spenser. Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother. Shak. They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king. Clarendon.

Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolue; intrepid. Hap helpeth hardy man alway. Chaucer.

High; lofty; bold. [Obs. or Archaic] To measure the most haughty mountain's height. Spenser. Equal unto this haughty enterprise. Spenser

To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak.

Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government. Full of hearty tears For our good father's loss. Marston.