boast

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To glorify oneself in speech; talk in a self-admiring way.
2. v. To speak of with excessive pride.
3. v. To possess or own (a desirable feature): "[the] capital of a region in the southeast that boasts bountiful coal fields” ( US Air).
4. v. To contain; have.
5. n. The act or an instance of bragging.
6. n. A source of pride.
7. v. To shape or form (stone) roughly with a broad chisel.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To threaten; utter a threat.
2. To brag; vaunt; speak vaingloriously or exaggeratedly, as of one's own worth, property, deeds, etc.
3. To glory or exult on account (of); speak with laudable pride.
4. To be possessed, as of something remarkable or admirable: often used jocosely.
5. Synonyms To bluster (about), vapor, crow (about a thing, or over a person), swell, talk big, put on airs.
6. To brag of; speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation: as, to boast what arms can do.
7. To glory or exult in possessing; have as a source of pride: often in a jocose sense: as, the village boasts a public pump.
8. To magnify or exalt; make over-confident; vaunt: with a reflexive pronoun.
9. n. Clamor; outcry.
10. n. Threatening; menace.
11. n. Brag; vaunting; language expressive of ostentation, pride, or vanity.
12. n. A cause of boasting; occasion of pride, vanity, or laudable exultation: as, Shakspere, the boast of English literature.
13. n. Synonyms Vaunt, brag. See boasting.
14. In masonry, to dress off the surface of a stone with a broad chisel and mallet.
15. In sculpture, to reduce ornaments or other work to their general contour or form, preparatory to working out the details.
16. n. In tennis, a stroke by which the ball is driven against the wall of a court at an acute angle. The rubbing against the wall makes the ball spin.

Wiktionary

1. n. A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.
2. n. ) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
3. v. to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself
4. v. ) To play a boast shot
5. v. ergative To possess something special.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. 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.
2. v. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
3. v. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
4. v. To display vaingloriously.
5. v. To possess or have.
6. v. (Masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
7. v. (Sculp.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
8. n. Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
9. n. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. show off
2. v. wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
3. n. speaking of yourself in superlatives