boas

v. t. 1. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lest bad men should boast
Their specious deeds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To display vaingloriously. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To possess or have; as, to boast a name. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Boast not thyself of to-morrow. Prov. xxvii. 1 [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Of uncertain etymology. ] 1. (Masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Sculp.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reason and morals? and where live they most,
In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast! Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The boast of historians. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Boasting. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who boasts; a braggart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stone mason's broad-faced chisel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. [ 1913 Webster ]

When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]