To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
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Acquitted; set free; rid of.
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That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
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To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
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To support or sustain; to hold up.
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To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.
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A violent gust of wind.
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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
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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 se…
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of Boast
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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
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To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.
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The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
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The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.
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To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.
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To heap up; to accumulate.
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A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
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To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
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A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden and brief rushing or driving of the wind. Snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw.
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To speak or write with exaggeration.
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Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the prejudice of another's right; false claim.
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To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the o…
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The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.
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To exaggerate; to overdo.
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To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate.
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Praise of one's self.
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To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.
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To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice.
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A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.
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A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy.
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Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering.
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Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering.
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One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow.
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One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow.
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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
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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 se…
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To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boas…
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A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer.
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Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.
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An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as…
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A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.
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See Rodomontade.
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Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant.
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To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
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An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
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To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
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To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.
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