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blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast.

A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.

A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.]

A boaster; a bully. [Collog.] Johnson.

ining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament. Shak.…

A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden.

Boastfulness; act of bragging. Shak.

A boaster. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Shak.

One who brags; a boaster.

Boastingly.

Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace. In spite of our host's bravado. Irving.

A bravado; a boast. With so proud a strain Of threats and bravings. Chapman.

Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter.

A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages. [Written also brigantine.] Jer. xlvi. 4. Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.…

A spit; a broach. On five sharp broachers ranked, the roast they turned. Dryden.

A wild duck (Aythya, or Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; - - called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck.

A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire.

A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc.

a purse. It is used for carrying powder from the magazine to the battery, in siege or seacoast service.