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dmiration, 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.

A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Boastingly.

Without bragging. [R.] Shak.

In a manner to be bragged of; finely; proudly. [Obs.] Spenser.

To surpass in bragging; hence, to make appear inferior. Whose bare outbragg'd the web it seemed to wear. Shak.

f trees or foliage. Where highest woods, impenetrable To star or sunlight, spread their umbrage broad. Milton.

Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage. Umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape. Milton.

sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.

A braggart, or loud talker. [Slang] Bartlett.

An act of bluffing; an expression of self-confidence for the purpose of intimidation; braggadocio; as, that is only bluff, or a bluff.

To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth. By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: .. not of works, lest any man should boast. E…

One who boasts; a braggart.

Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. Johnson. De Quincey.

how. [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 bunkum. Haliburton. To speak for Buncombe, to speak for mere show, or popularly.

To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of. [Archaic.] Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack. Shak.