Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vaporing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vapor \Va"por\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Vapored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Vaporing}.] [From {Vapor}, n.: cf. L. vaporare.] [Written
also {vapour}.]
1. To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance,
whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to
evaporate.
2. To emit vapor or fumes. [R.]
Running waters vapor not so much as standing waters.
--Bacon.
3. To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag.
Poets used to vapor much after this manner.
--Milton.
We vapor and say, By this time Matthews has beaten
them. --Walpole.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vaporing \Va"por*ing\, a.
Talking idly; boasting; vaunting. -- {Va"por*ing*ly}, adv.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
vaporing
n : an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his
fight" [syn: {brag}, {bragging}, {crow}, {crowing}, {line-shooting}]
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