BPage 295
- English Word Boasting Definition of Boast
- English Word Boasting Definition The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.
- English Word Boastingly Definition Boastfully; with boasting.
- English Word Boastive Definition Presumptuous.
- English Word Boastless Definition Without boasting or ostentation.
- English Word Boat Definition A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
- English Word Boat Definition Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.
- English Word Boat Definition A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
- English Word Boat Definition To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
- English Word Boat Definition To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
- English Word Boat Definition To go or row in a boat.
- English Word Boat bug Definition An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman.
- English Word Boat shell Definition A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck.
- English Word Boat shell Definition A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.
- English Word Boat-shaped Definition See Cymbiform.
- English Word Boat-tail Definition A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.
- English Word Boatable Definition Such as can be transported in a boat.
- English Word Boatable Definition Navigable for boats, or small river craft.
- English Word Boatage Definition Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance.
- English Word Boatbill Definition A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.