Chapter Blurry to Boasting of B by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Syn. — To brag; bluster; vapor; crow; talk big.

Boast
(Boast), v. t.

1. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self- commendation; to extol.

Lest bad men should boast
Their specious deeds.
Milton.

2. To display vaingloriously.

3. To possess or have; as, to boast a name.

To boast one's self, to speak with unbecoming confidence in, and approval of, one's self; — followed by of and the thing to which the boasting relates. [Archaic]

Boast not thyself of to-morrow.
Prov. xxvii. 1

Boast
(Boast), v. t. [Of uncertain etymology.]

1. (Masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. Weale.

2. (Sculp.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

Boast
(Boast), n.

1. Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.

Reason and morals? and where live they most,
In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast!
Byron.

2. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, — sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.

The boast of historians.
Macaulay.

Boastance
(Boast"ance) n. Boasting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Boaster
(Boast"er) n. One who boasts; a braggart.

Boaster
(Boast"er), n. A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.

Boastful
(Boast"ful) a. Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self- praising. — Boast"ful*ly, adv. — Boast"ful*ness, n.

Boasting
(Boast"ing), n. The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.

When boasting ends, then dignity begins.
Young.