Boast, brag, vaunt, vapor, gasconade.

Boasting N. boasting &c v.; boast, vaunt, crake^; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade^; gasconade; blague^, bluff, gas

[Fr.], faire claquer son fouet [Fr.], take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe^, holloa before one is out of the wood^. Adj. boasting &c v.; magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant

The French are much out of humour with their Algerine follies, and heartily tired of their expensive gasconade.

" Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade.

[Note 3: Gasconade.

Indeed, the Gascons, whose name is identified with boasting, (gasconade,) were always among the bravest races in Europe.

LEADER OF THE BAND Frog and cricket in the mosses, Confound your gasconading!

But to this gasconade the simple-minded have given creditbecause the author showed certificates that testified to his great success, and called him "amiable and modest!"

The Convention were indeed, at first, greatly elated by the dispatches from Amsterdam, and imagined they were on the eve of dictating to all Europe: the churches were ordered to toll their only bell, and the gasconades of the bulletin were uncommonly pompousbut the novelty of the event has now subsided, and the conquest of Holland excites less interest than the thaw.

The Convention were indeed, at first, greatly elated by the dispatches from Amsterdam, and imagined they were on the eve of dictating to all Europe: the churches were ordered to toll their only bell, and the gasconades of the bulletin were uncommonly pompousbut the novelty of the event has now subsided, and the conquest of Holland excites less interest than the thaw.

Several French Battalions, who some say were a Corps de Reserve, made a Show of Resistance; but it only proved a Gasconade, for upon our preparing to fill up a little Fossé, in order to attack them, they beat the Chamade, and sent us Charte Blanche.

Dear Dumb, 'In short, to use no further Preface, if I should tell you that I have seen a Hackney-Coachman, when he has come to set down his Fare, which has consisted of two or three very fine Ladies, hand them out, and salute every one of them with an Air of Familiarity, without giving the least Offence, you would perhaps think me guilty of a Gasconade.

He was famous for much gasconading, and a fondness for whisky and other material things.

On the way up the road, they set fire to the bridges over the Gasconade and Osage Rivers, the former thirty-five miles from Jefferson City, and ninety from St. Louis, and the latter within nine miles of Jefferson City.

Early in the forenoon of the 12th, he learned of the destruction of the bridges over the Gasconade and Osage Rivers.

The first severe battles made an end of the greater part of this gasconading.

For fifty miles the road led over mountains, to the banks of the Gasconade, one of the prettiest rivers I have ever seen.

My first night from Rolla was passed on the banks of the Gasconade.

After a ride of thirteen miles we reached the Gasconade River, which we found considerably swollen by recent rains.

A hotel known as the California House was our stopping-place, ten miles from the Gasconade.

Colonel Carr, with a cavalry division, was sent to the line of the Gasconade, to watch the movements of the enemy.

We have not lowered our tone on this new disgrace, though I think we shall talk no more of insisting on implicit submission, which would rather be a gasconade than firmness.

I think it should be added, in extenuation of what would otherwise seem a gross imposture, that his granddaughter was really ignorant of Crély's exact agethat he, being ever a gasconading fellow, was quite ready to personate that certain Joseph Crély whose name appears on the baptismal records of the Church in Detroit of the year 1726.

This spurious sportsman, chasing No nobler prey than pelf? The merest "fly in amber," He after eagles clamber? Nay, faction's ante-chamber Were fitter place for him, A trifler transitory, To gasconade of "glory"!