Boast

Boast - Other Definitions

• (v. i.) 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.
  
  
• (v. i.) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
  
  
• (v. t.) To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
  
  
• (v. t.) To display vaingloriously.
  
  
• (v. t.) To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
  
  
• (v. t.) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
  
  
• (v. t.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
  
  
• (n.) Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
  
  
• (n.) The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
  
  
• (imp. & p. p.) of Boast