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A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

Blattering.

One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.

ind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round. Milton.

Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.

The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose. Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. Sir F. Drake.

A house for sheltering boats. Half the latticed boathouse hides. Wordsworth.

lose vessels; -- called also animal charcoal. It is used as a decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc., and as a black pigment. See Ivory black, under Black. -- Bone cave, a cave in which are found bones of extinct or recent animals, mingled sometimes with the works and bones of man. Am. Cyc. -- Bone…

A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness. [Poetic] Tennyson. Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand. Milton.

scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold.

A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. Shak.

Briefly. [Obs. or Poetic] Adam, faltering long, thus answered brief. Milton.

Having glittering armor. [Poetic] Milton.

Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star.

Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.

A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.

made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches. Blind buckler (Naut.), a solid buckler. -- Buckler mustard (Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields. -…

A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow. Bullies seldom execute the threats they deal in. Palmerston.

Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show. [Cant or Slang, U.S.] All that flourish about right of search was bunkum -- all that brag about hanging your Canada sheriff was bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunku…

Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not. Wharton. Burrill.