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Bombast

Bombast (bombast)
n.(bm"båst or b1913 webster dictionarym"båst; 277)
Bom"bast
[OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See Bombazine.]
  1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
    [Obs.]

    A candle with a wick of bombast.
    Lupton.

  2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
    [Obs.]

    How now, my sweet creature of bombast!
    Shak.

    Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least.
    Stubbes.

  3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.

    Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid.
    Dryden.

Bombast

Bombast (bombast)
a.
Bom"bast
  1. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

    [He] evades them with a bombast circumstance,
    Horribly stuffed with epithets of war.
    Shak.

    Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way.
    Cowley.

Bombast

Bombast (bombast)
v. t.(bm*båst" or b1913 webster dictionarym*båst")
Bom*bast"
  1. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
    [Obs.]

    Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed.
    Drayton.













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