BOMBASTS
Noun
bombasts
plural of bombast
Verb
bombasts
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bombast
Source: Wiktionary
BOMBAST
Bom"bast, n. Etym: [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.
Bom"bast, a.
Definition: 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.
Bom*bast", v. t.
Definition: To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]
Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton.
BOMBAST
Bom"bast, n. Etym: [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.
Bom"bast, a.
Definition: 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.
Bom*bast", v. t.
Definition: To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]
Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition