Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume ABAnd ever-threatening storms 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. 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. As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands. Blus"ter, n. 1. Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness. To the winds they set 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. |