Whether high towering or accoasting low. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reason and morals? and where live they most,
In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast! Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The boast of historians. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: . . not of works, lest any man should boast. Eph. ii. 8, 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult. [ 1913 Webster ]

In God we boast all the day long. Ps. xliv. 8 [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To brag; bluster; vapor; crow; talk big. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lest bad men should boast
Their specious deeds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To display vaingloriously. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To possess or have; as, to boast a name. [ 1913 Webster ]

To boast one's self, to speak with unbecoming confidence in, and approval of, one's self; -- followed by of and the thing to which the boasting relates. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Boast not thyself of to-morrow. Prov. xxvii. 1 [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Sculp.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required. [ 1913 Webster ]

When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. Deut. xi. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The seashore, or land near it. [ 1913 Webster ]

He sees in English ships the Holland coast. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

We the Arabian coast do know
At distance, when the species blow. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

The coast is clear, the danger is over; no enemy in sight. Dryden. Fig.: There are no obstacles. “Seeing that the coast was clear, Zelmane dismissed Musidorus.” Sir P. Sidney. --
Coast guard. (a) A body of men originally employed along the coast to prevent smuggling; now, under the control of the admiralty, drilled as a naval reserve. [ Eng. ] (b) The force employed in life-saving stations along the seacoast. [ U. S. ] --
Coast rat (Zool.), a South African mammal (Bathyergus suillus), about the size of a rabbit, remarkable for its extensive burrows; -- called also sand mole. --
Coast waiter, a customhouse officer who superintends the landing or shipping of goods for the coast trade. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Anon she hears them chant it lustily,
And all in haste she coasteth to the cry. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sail by or near the shore. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ancients coasted only in their navigation. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To sail from port to port in the same country. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ Cf. OF. coste, F. côte, hill, hillside. ] To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sail by or near; to follow the coast line of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nearchus, . . . not knowing the compass, was fain to coast that shore. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To conduct along a coast or river bank. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The Indians . . . coasted me along the river. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who sails near the shore. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coasting trade, trade carried on by water between neighboring ports of the same country, as distinguished from foreign trade or trade involving long voyages. --
Coasting vessel, a vessel employed in coasting; a coaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sliding down hill; sliding on a sled upon snow or ice. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie. G. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

He could roast, and seethe, and broil, and fry. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To undergo the process of being roasted. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes. [ 1913 Webster ]

In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned. BAcon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn. “Roasted in wrath and fire.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Metal.) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To banter severely. [ Colloq. ] Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fat swan loved he best of any roost [ roast ]. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

To rule the roast, to be at the head of affairs. “The new-made duke that rules the roast.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A contrivance for roasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A pig, or other article of food fit for roasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Roasting ear, an ear of Indian corn at that stage of development when it is fit to be eaten roasted. --
Roasting jack, a machine for turning a spit on which meat is roasted. [ 1913 Webster ]

My sober evening let the tankard bless,
With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; -- so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

It now came to the time of Mr. Jones to give a toast . . . who could not refrain from mentioning his dear Sophia. Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as “The land we live in, ” “The day we celebrate, ” etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Toast rack, a small rack or stand for a table, having partitions for holding slices of dry toast. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kitchen utensil for toasting bread, cheese, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

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Toasting fork, a long-handled fork for toasting bread, cheese, or the like, by the fire. [ 1913 Webster ]