2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.

Vault"y (?), a. Arched; concave. [Obs.] "The vaulty heaven." Shak.

Vaunce (?), v. i. [See Advance.] To advance. [Obs.] Spenser.

Vaunt (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vaunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaunting.] [F.

vanter, LL. vanitare, fr. L. vanus vain. See Vain.] To boast; to make a

vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like;

to talk ostentatiously; to brag.

Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does

incline him to disvalue what he has.

Gov. of Tongue.

Vaunt, v. t. To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with

ostentation.

Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.

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