Bom″bast, a. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
evades them with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuffed with epithets of war.
Shak.
Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way.
Cowley.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.