To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
To thrive or grow well.
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
To make bold, sweeping movements with.
To be in a period of greatest influence.
To prosper or fare well.
To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
An ornamentation.
A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
A decorative embellishment on a building.
To speak boastfully about.
To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
To speak boastfully.
A boast; an instance of vaunting.