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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume AB

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.

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, 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·er (?), n. One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.

Blus"ter·ing, a.

1. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous.


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