n. [ OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See Bombazine. ]
A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton. [ 1913 Webster ]
How now, my sweet creature of bombast! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least. Stubbes. [ 1913 Webster ]
Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ He ] evades them with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]
A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke. [1913 Webster]
n. Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]