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 Boast, v. t.
 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 unbecoming confidence in, and approval of, one's self; -- followed by of and the thing to which the boasting relates. [Archaic]
    Boast not thyself of to-morrow.   --Prov. xxvii. 1