3. A game at cards similar to bluff. Chesterfield.

Brag (&?;), a. [See Brag, v. i.] Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited. [Archaic]

A brag young fellow.

B. Jonson.

Brag, adv. Proudly; boastfully. [Obs.] Fuller.

Brag`ga*do"cio (&?;), n. [From Braggadocchio, a boastful character in Spenser's "Faërie Queene."] 1. A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden.

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