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Look up: boast

  1. boast
    [n] - speaking of yourself in superlatives 2. [v] - show off
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Boast
    Boast intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Boasted ; present participle & verbal noun Boasting .] [ Middle English bosten , boosten , v., bost , boost , noun , noise, boasting; confer German bausen , bauschen , to swell, pusten , Danish puste , Swedish pusta
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/72

  3. Boast
    Boast transitive verb 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 unb ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/72

  4. Boast
    Boast transitive verb [ 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.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/72

  5. 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. »
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/72

  6. boast
    1. To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. ... 2. To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required. ... Origin: Of uncertain etymology. ... 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, ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. boast
    boasting noun speaking of yourself in superlatives
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. boast
    tout verb show off
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. Boast
    • (n.) Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging. • (v. t.) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. • (v. t.) To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. • (v. i.) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult. • (v. t.) To sha...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. boast
    brag; say great things about yourself
    Found on http://www.eslgold.com/acad_vocab_defini


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10 November 2009

This day in history:
On 10 November 1871, David Livingstone, missionary and explorer was `found` by New York Herald reporter Henry Morton Stanley, who greeted him with the famous words `Dr Livingstone, I presume`. Between November 1853 and May 1856 David Livingstone completed a remarkable coast-to-coast journey from Luanda in the west to the mouth of the Zambezi River in the east. It was an epic trip of 4,300 miles and Livingstone became the first European to complete it. Along the way he had discovered a giant waterfall called ‘Mosi-oa-tunya’ (the smoke that thunders). Livingstone named it Victoria Falls after the British monarch. read more

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