the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Huff
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.
(2):
(v. t.) To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.
(3):
(n.) A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
(4):
(v. i.) To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.
(5):
(v. i.) To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
(6):
(v. i.) To remove from the board a man which could have captured a piece but has not done so; - so called because it was the habit to blow upon the piece.
(7):
(n.) A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
(8):
(v. t.) To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Huff'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/h/huff.html. 1828.
