boast

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To shape or form (stone) roughly with a broad chisel.
• intransitive verb To talk or write about oneself or something related to oneself in a proud or self-admiring way.
• intransitive verb To say (something about oneself) in a proud or self-admiring way.
• intransitive verb To have or possess (a desirable feature).
• noun The act or an instance of boasting.
• noun A source of pride.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To threaten; utter a threat.
• To brag; vaunt; speak vaingloriously or exaggeratedly, as of one's own worth, property, deeds, etc.
• To glory or exult on account (of); speak with laudable pride.
• To be possessed, as of something remarkable or admirable: often used jocosely.
• Synonyms To bluster (about), vapor, crow (about a thing, or over a person), swell, talk big, put on airs.
• To brag of; speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation: as, to boast what arms can do.
• To glory or exult in possessing; have as a source of pride: often in a jocose sense: as, the village boasts a public pump.
• To magnify or exalt; make over-confident; vaunt: with a reflexive pronoun.
• In masonry, to dress off the surface of a stone with a broad chisel and mallet.
• In sculpture, to reduce ornaments or other work to their general contour or form, preparatory to working out the details.
• noun Clamor; outcry.
• noun Threatening; menace.
• noun Brag; vaunting; language expressive of ostentation, pride, or vanity.
• noun A cause of boasting; occasion of pride, vanity, or laudable exultation: as, Shakspere, the boast of English literature.
• noun Synonyms Vaunt, brag. See boasting.
• noun In tennis, a stroke by which the ball is driven against the wall of a court at an acute angle. The rubbing against the wall makes the ball spin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
• noun The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
• intransitive verb 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.
• intransitive verb To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
• transitive verb To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
• transitive verb To display vaingloriously.
• transitive verb To possess or have.
• transitive verb [Archaic] to speak with unbecoming confidence in, and approval of, one's self; -- followed by of and the thing to which the boasting relates.
• transitive verb (Masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
• transitive verb (Sculp.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.
• noun ) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
• verb to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself
• verb ) To play a boast shot
• verb ergative To possess something special.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb show off
• verb wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
• noun speaking of yourself in superlatives