Boast

1. n. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, — sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
2. v. i. To vaunt one’s self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one’s self or of things belonging to one’s self; as, to boast of one’s exploits courage, descent, wealth.
3. v. i. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
4. v. t. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
5. v. t. To display vaingloriously.
6. v. t. To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
7. v. t. To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
8. v. t. To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
9. n. Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
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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.