These are the meanings of the letters TABSTOP when you unscramble them.
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Boast (v. i.)
To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.
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Boast (v. i.)
To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
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Boast (v. t.)
To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
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Boast (v. t.)
To display vaingloriously.
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Boast (v. t.)
To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
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Boast (v. t.)
To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
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Boast (v. t.)
To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
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Boast (n.)
Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
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Boast (n.)
The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
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Botts (n. pl.)
See Bots.
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Sabot (n.)
A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.
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Sabot (n.)
A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.
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Stoat (n.)
The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels.
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Toast (v. t.)
To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
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Toast (v. t.)
To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
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Toast (v. t.)
To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
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Toast (v.)
Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.
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Toast (v.)
A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; -- so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.
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Toast (v.)
Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as \"The land we live in,\" \"The day we celebrate,\" etc.