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To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field. Dryden.

To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable. Diffidence conciliates the proud, and softens the severe. Rambler.

Born under the predominant influence of the sun. [Obs.] And proud beside, as solar people are. Dryden.

To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step. With manly mien he stalked along the ground. Dryden. Then stalking through the deep, He fords the ocean. Addison. I forbear myself from…

l or other ensign. His armies, in the following day, On those fair plains their standards proud display. Fairfax.

Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard. [Archaic] Your words have been stout against me. Mal. iii. 13. Commonly . . . they that be rich are lofty and stout. Latimer.

To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity. Does he not hold up his head, . . . and strut in his gait Shak.

de of address; as, the style of Majesty. One style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe. Burke.

Lofty of mien; haughty; proud. [Poetic] "Countenance sublime and insolent." Spenser. His fair, large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule. Milton.

ssively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating. The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud. Dryden.

The act of surveying; a general view, as from above. Under his proud survey the city lies. Sir J. Denham.

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.

To walk proudly; to sweep along. [Prov. Eng.] Todd.

To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion. And like a peacock sweep along his tail. Shak.

ok; hence, to bring lower; to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down pride, or the proud. "I never attempted to be impudent yet, that I was not taken down." Goldsmith. (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion. (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold. (d) To record; to write d…

Like a Tarquin, a king of ancient Rome; proud; haughty; overbearing.

Freedom from passion; moderation. [Obs.] In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth, Most goodly temperature you may descry. Spenser.

, too short, or too wide; too high; too many; too much. His will, too strong to bend, too proud to learn. Cowley.

Hence, assuming superiority; proud. The great and flourishing condition of some of the topping sinners of the world. South.

In a topping or proud manner.