intransitive. To show a bold or threatening face; to brag, boast, swagger. Also in to face and brace at brace, v.2 1 Obsolete (regional in later use).

To bluster, domineer; to assume a defiant attitude; chiefly in phrase to face and brace. Obsolete.

intransitive. To make a great show or commotion; to behave proudly or arrogantly; to brag, swagger. Obsolete (archaic in later use).

intransitive. To blow one's breath out abruptly as an expression of contempt or scorn; to exclaim ‘pooh!’ or the like; to speak or behave scornfully…

card of ten: a playing card worth ten points (the value of the lowest-scoring cards in the game of primero); used in various expressions relating…

card of ten: a playing card worth ten points (the value of the lowest-scoring cards in the game of primero); used in various expressions relating…

intransitive. To behave boastfully or defiantly; to swagger, strut; to brag, crow over. Obsolete.

To boast, glory, vaunt. to brave it: to swagger, act the bravo. Now in to brave it out. (Perhaps rather sense 3?)

intransitive. = roister, v.

intransitive. To puff or swell with pride or arrogance; to speak arrogantly or insolently; to storm, bluster, ‘talk big’; to ‘bluff’. Also to huff it…

intransitive. To behave with an air of superiority, in a blustering, insolent, or defiant manner; now esp. to walk or carry oneself as if among…

intransitive. To swagger, bluster, domineer. Also transitive in to ruff it out.

intransitive. †To rant and bluster as a roisterer (obsolete); †to vociferate (obsolete); to ‘go on’ violently, to rave in anger or excitement, to…

intransitive. To talk big, bluster, hector; to swagger. to bounce out (with): to blurt out ‘roundly’.

intransitive. To look brave, assume a bold or defiant front. to bravade the street: to swagger along it.

esp. Of birds: To raise the feathers; hence figurative with reference to the turkeycock or peacock: To show off, vapour, bluster.

intransitive. To play the hector or bully; to brag, bluster, domineer. Also, to hector it.

intransitive. To celebrate or enjoy oneself noisily or boisterously; to behave uproariously. Also †transitive with it (also with out) (obsolete).

intransitive. To puff, bluster. Obsolete.

intransitive. figurative. To behave in an exaggerated or overly assertive manner so as to draw attention to oneself; to swagger; to flounce…

To bluster, swagger.

intransitive. To act or behave like a bully (in various senses of the noun); (now usually) to seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce someone perceived…

the flesh of bulls, also †a term of abuse; esp. in to bluster like bull-beef, as big as bull-beef, etc.

To behave pompously or pretentiously, swagger; to play the ‘swell’. Also with it.

intransitive. To swagger, talk big or bumptiously, brag.

to swagger noisily, act like a blustering bravo.

intransitive and transitive. To talk in a loud and opinionated way; to bluster. Also: to say or tell (something) in this way.