VAUNT
Vaunt, v. t.
Defn: To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with
ostentation.
Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. 1 Cor. xiii. 4.
My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil. Milton.
VAUNT
Vaunt, n.
Defn: A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag. The spirits beneath, whom I seduced With other promises and other vaunts. Milton.
VAUNT
Vaunt, n. Etym: [F. avant before, fore. See Avant, Vanguard.]
Defn: The first part. [Obs.] Shak.
VAUNT
Vaunt, v. t. Etym: [See Avant, Advance.]
Defn: To put forward; to display. [Obs.] "Vaunted spear." Spenser.
And what so else his person most may vaunt. Spenser.
VAUNT-COURIER
Vaunt"-cou`ri*er, n.
Defn: See Van-courier. [Obs.] Shak.