Blus"ter , n.
1. Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.
To the winds they set
Their corners, when with bluster to confound
Sea, air, and
shore.
Milton.
2. Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language. L'Estrange.
Syn. -- Noise; boisterousness; tumult; turbulence; confusion; boasting;
swaggering; bullying.
Blus"ter , v. t. To utter, or do,
with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
He
bloweth and blustereth out
. . . his abominable blasphemy.
Sir T. More.
As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands.
Fuller.
Blus"ter (&?;), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blustered (&?;);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Blustering.]
[Allied to blast.]
1. To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as
wind; to be
windy and boisterous, as the weather.
And ever-threatening storms
Of Chaos blustering round.
Milton.
2. To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage.
Your ministerial directors
blustered like tragic
tyrants.
Burke.
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