bombast
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Bombast \Bom"bast\ (b[o^]m"b[.a]st or b[u^]m"b[.a]st; 277), n. [OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See Bombazine.]
1.Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
A candle with a wick of bombast.— Lupton.[1913 Webster]
2.Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
How now, my sweet creature of bombast!— Shak.[1913 Webster]
Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least.— Stubbes.[1913 Webster]
3.Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. [1913 Webster]
Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
Bombast \Bom"bast\, a. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic. [1913 Webster]
[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
Bombast \Bom*bast"\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]st" or b[u^]m*b[.a]st"), v. t. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. --Drayton. [1913 Webster] Bombastic