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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Boast \Boast\, verb (used with an object)
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
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Boast \Boast\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Boasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Boasting}.] [OE. bosten, boosten, v., bost, boost, noun, noise, boasting; cf. G. bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. p["o]sa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But these last may be from English.]
1. 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. --Eph. ii. 8, 9.
2. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
In God we boast all the day long. --Ps. xliv. 8
Syn: To brag; bluster; vapor; crow; talk big.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Boast \Boast\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Boast \Boast\, noun
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
boast
noun: speaking of yourself in superlatives [syn: {boasting}, {self-praise}, {jactitation}]
verb
1: show off [syn: {tout}, {swash}, {shoot a line}, {brag}, {gas}, {blow}, {bluster}, {vaunt}, {gasconade}]
2: wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat" [syn: {sport}, {feature}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "boast": aggrandize, be enfeoffed of, be possessed of, be seized of, blow, bluster, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, bounce, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, bully, catch, claim, cock-a-doodle-doo, command, conceit, crow, diamond, draw the longbow, ego-trip, enjoy, exalt, fanfaronade, fill, find, fish for compliments, flaunt, flourish, gasconade, gasconism, gem, glory, godsend, good thing, gush, have, have and hold, have in hand, have no self-doubt, have tenure of, heroics, hold, jactation, jactitation, jewel, know it all, mouth, occupy, parade, pearl, pique, plum, plume, possess, prate, preen, pride, pride and joy, prize, puff, quack, rodomontade, ruffle, show off, side, speak for Buncombe, squat, squat on, swagger, swash, swashbuckle, talk big, treasure, triumph, trophy, trouvaille, usucapt, vanity, vapor, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, windfall, winner
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