Helen Fenton

Blustering: Definition and part of speech

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Blustering

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Bluster
  2. a. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bluster: Definition and part of speech

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Bluster

  1. n. Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.
  2. v. i. To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
  3. v. i. To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage.
  4. v. t. To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
  5. n. Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Boa: Definition and part of speech

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Boa

  1. n. A long, round fur tippet; — so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor.
  2. n. A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques).

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Boa constrictor: Definition and part of speech

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Boa constrictor

  1. A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.