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VAUNT-CUKBYING.
of troops ; a soUlier or horseman sent out in advance
of the main body. Usually in pi. Obs,
A. 1560 Daus ir. SUidame^s Comm. 433 b, He by his
vaunioiiTers levied as muche power as he possible migbte.
1569 Stocker Ir. Du^d. Sic. II. X. 55 The vauntcurrers of
eche side gaue intelligence of the approch of one an other.
15^ R. HiCHCOCK QmiMifss. U it 68 b, In the spyes, in the
guides, in the vantcorrours, in the principal! officers. x6oi
R. Johnson Kingd, 4- Comhiw. 184 Vpon the head of the
batiell ranged aoo thousande horsemen in small troupes,
like our vantcunrcrs. 1614 Raleigh Hist. H'arU in. x. II.
1 14 On the sodajne one of their Vaunt-currors brought newes
of the King's apprxxA. 1650 R, Stapvlton Strata's Low
C. lyars IX. 50 Some Vantcuners advancing a little before
the Army.
18. 1579-80 North Plutarch, Puhticolx (1895) I. 275 Lucretins.
.was appointed to make head against the vauntctirriers
of the Sabynes, 1600 Dymmok Irelaiid (1843) 31
The rebel .
.deliveringe some few shott out of the woods and
ditches upon our vaunt-curriers, a 1644 Kvnastom Leoline
4- Sydanis 1265 How as the swift vant-curriers rode about
As sentinel! perdue, a 1670 Hacket -4^. Williams i. (1692)
190 Unless ihe leader look about him in his march and
search ever>- hedge by vant-curriers.
Y. 1609 Dekker Gulfs Hom'.k. Wks. (Grosart) II. 219
Thou dost not only send out the lively spirits, like vauntcouriers,
to fortify and make good the uttermost borders of
thy body.
fi. 1604 R. Cawdrev Table. Alpk.^ Vauntcourers^ forerunners.
1614 Raixich Hist. World v. iii. II. 449 The
Carthaginian Horse, and light Armature, fell vpon the
Roman Vant-courrers.
€. 1677 W. Hubbard Narrative 7^ A party of Indians.
fired upon the front and mortally wounded two of the vaunt
Carriers.
2. transf. One who goes or is sent out in advance
in order to prepare the way or to announce
the approach of another ; a forerunner.
a. 1361 Baus tr. Bullingcr on Apoc. (1573) 177 And this
latter so impugned the supremacie of the Patriarch of Constantinople,
that he sticked not to call hym the vauntcurrour
of Antichrist. 1567 Y>vlk^t Horace^ Ep. iii. cv, And
those that wil vauntcurrers be Not I wil draw theim backe.
1607 Dekker Northward Hoe w.^iV?^ 1873IH.29 He send
my vant-currer presently. 1709 Strvpe Ann. Re/. 1. 11. xliv.
479 All such as had been vantcurrors in private colleges to
enter into this apostasy.
p, >. 1603 Harsnet Pop. Impost. 12 The harbinger, the
host, the Steward, the Vauntcourrier. 1606 Dekker AVa'j
from Hell Wks. (Grosart) II. 137 To all which questions the
vant curier answers briefly. x886R. F. Bwaoii Arab. Nts.
(abr. ed.) I. 4 He despatched vaunt-couriers and messengers
of glad tidings.
b. Of things.
1598 Barkclev Felic. Man v. (1603) 472 The crying and
lamenting of a childe when bee first entereth into this world,
doth seeme to presage his painefuU life, as a vauntcurrer of
his miseries to come. 1605 Shaks. Lear 111. iL 5 You Sutph'rous
and Thought-executing Fires, Vaunt-curriors to
Oake-cleauing Thunder-bolLs. 1639 Chapman & Shirley
Chabot in. ii, I will relate toyour honours his most cruel exactions
upon the subject—the old vantcouriers of rebellions.
x8ji Milman Fall yerusalem 39 And gloom of deepest midnight
the vaunt-courier Of your dread presence. 1849 Longf.
Karana^h xix, These were the vaunt-couriers and attendants
of the hot August.
+ Vaunt-currying, a, Oh.~^ [? f. vaunicurrier
Vaunt-coubibk. Cf. Cobby v.'^I (Meaning
not clear.)
x6o6 Sir G. Goosecappe 1. iii. in Bullen Old Plays (1884)
III, Wili. How will they digest it thinkest thou, when they
shall finde our Ladies not there? la. I haue a vaunt-
Curriing deuise shall make them digest it most healthfully.
Vau"nted,///. fl. Also 7 vanted. [f. Vaunt
z?.] Boasted or bragged of; highly extolled.
1635 A. Stafford Fern. Glory (1869) 123 Whose meanest
Perfection so farre excels all your so long vanted masculine
merits. 1667 Milton P. L. iii. 251 My Vanquisher, spoild
of his vanted spoile. 1789 Mrs, Piozzi Joum. France II.
42, I have seen the vaunted present of porcelain. 1815
Scott Taltsm. xiii, Our cousin Edith must first learn how
this vaunted wight hath conducted himself. 1838 Prkscott
Ferd.ff Is. (1846) II. I. xvii. 124 Their vaunted purity of
blood. 1893 Pember EarilCs Earliest Ages 67 How.. all
our vaunted wisdom in this life is said to be at best but a
knowledge in part.
Vauntegarde, variant of Vantguabd Obs.
Vaunter (v§nt3j). Now arch. Forms : 5-6
vantour, 6 vauntour ; 6 -SV. vantar ; 6-7 vanter,
7- vaunter. [ad. OF. vantere^ vanteor^KP. vanleour)^
vanteur (F. vantenr\ f. vanter Vaunt v.
Cf. Prov. vaniaire, -ador. It. vantatore^ A boaster
or braggart.
1456 Sir G. Havf, Law Arms (S.T.S.) 30 Thai ar..grete
vantouris of litill foredede. 1484 Caxton Chivalry 65 By
surete ben mesprysed many cowardes, vauntours, and many
vaync semblaunces. >5as Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xxxiv.
104 These frenchmen ar great vantours and hyghe mynded.
'SMTvne in CaM. Tract. (S.T.S.) 29 Tratours,..vantars,
luflars of thame selues mair than of God. 1588SHAKS. Tit.
A. V. iii. 113 Alas you know, I am no Vaunter I. a 1610
Healey Theophrastus (1636) 79 A vanter or forth-putter is
he, that boastes upon the Exchange, that he hath store of
bankemony. 1640 Gent A'worrmSr. n. i. Eb, I fit prove not
correspondent' to my word, thinke me an idle vanter. 17x6
Pope fliadv. 347 Mistaken vaunter ! (Diomed replied ;) Thy
dart has err'd, and now my spear be tried. 1718 Hearne
Collect, (O.H.S.) VI. 125 A very pert, conceited Person, full of
himself, and a mere Vaunter. i83i'1rri.awnv^(/z;. Younger
Son HI. 222 De Ruyter's curled lip indicated his contempt of
the vaunter. 1848 Lyttom Harold vii, iii, Now thou shall
see if the Norman is the vaunter thou deemest him. 1888
Doughty Arabia Deseria II. 146 Such is the unmasking of
vaunters, who utter their wishes, as if they were already
performances.
68
trans/ X599 Shaks. Hen. V, 11. iii. 4 Nim, rowse thy
vaunting Veines :
Boy, brissle thy Courage vp.
VAUNTSQUARE.
b. A boastful assertor, extoUer, commcnder or 2. Of a boastful nature or character; indicative
praiser, ^something.
1553 T. Wilson Rhet.^s b, By vocation of life a souldiour
is counted a great bragger.and a vaunter of hyniselfe. 1623
CocKERAM II, A Vaunter of his owne vertues, aretalogon,
1700 Drvden Horner^ Iliad i. 336 Tongue-valiant Hero,
Vaunter of thy Might. 1789 Mrs. Piozzi "jfourn. France I.
222 They are really no puffers, no vaunters of that which
they possess. 1856 Mrs. Browning Aurora Leigh vii. 1079
The large-mouthed frogs (Those noisy vaunte;s of their
shallow streams). 1866 Fortn, Rev. V, 540 The proud
vaunter of universal knowledge had been transformed into
the humble student of the Bible.
Vau'ntery. Now Obs^ or arch. Also 5, 7
vaunterye, o -erie, 7 vanterie, 7-8 -ery. [a.
OF. (also mod.F.) vanterie, f. vanter to vaunt (cf
Avauntby), or in later use f. Vaunt v. -^--eby,]
1. Vaunting, boasting ; boastful or vainglorious
of, proceeding from, boasting or vainglory.
1647 Hexham i. s.v., Vaunting and bragging wordes.
1748 Anson^s Voy. 11. xi. 252 The vaunting accounts given
by the Spaniards of lier size, her guns, and her strength.
1770 Langhorne Plutarch's Lives (1879) 1. 134/1 The
vaunting siiouts and songs of the barbarians. 1802 Med.
Jrnl. VIII. 66 Does not Pyrrho likewise speak in a
bearing or show.
1491 Caxton Vitas Pair. (W. de W. 1495) 11. 272 b/i She
was not so indyscrete for tenhaunce her self by ouer moche
vaunterye. 1592 Couspiracle/or Pretended Reform. 5 [He]
held it vp triumphantly, and shewed it with great vaunterie
and glone. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 303 This vanterie
and glorious boasting of a mans selfe. 1636 in 4M Rep.
Hist. MSS. Commiss. 391/1 In Wentworth's Declaration
..there was much smoke of the vanterie of his own service.
1755 T. H. Croker Orl. Fur.xxxm. Ixxi, They gave themselves
too lofty vantery. That France no knight or Paladin
could shew To stand before the weakest of them three.
1814 SoUTHEY Roderick xxii. 23 She had led The infatuate
Moor, in dangerous vauntery, To these aspiring forms, l^'d.
XXV. 308 The same [horse] on whom The apostate Orpas in
his vauntery Wont to parade the streets of Cordoba.
1 2. A boast, a vaunt. Obs,
1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 476 They stood much upon
promises of future prowesse or vanteries of present valour.
1605 Daniel Queen's Arcadia i. iii, That Touch Of deep
Dislike of both their Vaunteries. x6a6 T. H[awkins] tr.
Caussin's Holy Court 432 She shewed to take not much
pleasure in these his vaunteryes.
Vau'ntful, «. and adv. Now ajxh. [f. Vaunt
sb.^ + -FUL.] Boastful.
i5j>o Spenser Muiopot. 54 Vong Clarion with vauntfull
lustie bed After his guize did cast abroad to fare, x6o8
Sylvester Du Bartas \\. iv. Decay 552 Rabsakeh..Thus
braves the Hebrews and upbraids their Prince (Weening,
them all with vaunt-full threats to snib). 1838 Tait's Mag.
V. 707 The English King forthwith entrusted to the vauntful
captain his two sons. 1850 Blacxie ^schylus II. 180
H is lightnings and his thunders Recking no more— so speaks
the vauntful tongue—Than vulgar noonday heat. 2890
Blackzv. Mag. CXLVIII. 513 Invincible men call her [/.*'.
the Armada] :. .Well won that vauntful title by the dread,
That all around is by her coming spread.
b. As ctdv. Boastfully, rare"^.
a 1814 A. Becket Genii i. in New Brit. Theatre I. 490
Albeit the agent only Of him who bears it [a name] vaunifuf,
man's prime enemy.
Vauntgard(e, -guard, varr. Vantguabd Obs.
VaU'ntineSS. rare. [f. Vaunty a.] Boastfulness.
1820 in JoDRELL (citing Bailey, app. in error: see Vauntingness).
1851 Spurgeon Ti-eas. David \\. 2 Peaceful and
joyful notwithstanding the proud and boastful vauiitiness of
his enemies.
VaU'ntinff, vbh sb. Now arch, [f. Vaunt v^
The action ofthe vb. ; boasting, bragging.
c 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 1145 Honours nuryshes, als men
may se, Vayn glory, vauntyng and vanite. 1586 Day Eti^.
Secretary n. (1625) 51, I could alwaies find an Asse by his
braying, and scorne a rascall though he were neuer so full
of vaunting. x6oi Shaks. Jul. C. iv. iii. 52 You say, you
are a better Souldier : Let it appeare so; make your vaunting
true. i6xi Bible IVisdom xvii. 7 As for the illusions of
arte Magicke, they were put downe, and their vaunting in
wisedome was reprooued with disgrace. i8>6 Scott IVoodst.
vii, Be moderate in speech, and forbear oaths or vaunting,
1849 Macaulav Hist. Eftg. iii. I. 349 To our generation the
honest vaunting of our ancestors must appear almost ludicrous.
1864 Burton Scot Abroad I. iii. 112 The Earl of
Flanders.. having, in his vain vaunting, defeated so important
a project.
attrtb. £^1586 C'tess Pembroke Ps, lxiv. v. The hartes
uprightly playn Shall have their vaunting scope.
b. An instance of this ; a boast.
X793 Ld, Auckland Corr. (1862) 111. 27 His vauntings
increase with his disgraces, a z8oo Cowper IHad {fid. 2) xxi.
550 Let me never in my father's courts Such vauntings hear
of thine again. 1838 Dickens Lett. (1880) I. 8 We had many
delightful vauntings of the same kind. 1877 Smithes
Diet. Chr. Biog, I. 133/2 The hypocritical vauntings of
Clytemnestra.
Vau'nting, ppl a. [f. as prec. + -ING 2.]
1. That vaunts or boasts ; given or addicted to
boasting.
1589 Nashe Aiiat. Absurdiiie Wks. (Grosart) I. 51 No
matter though such vanting vpstarts., become the scofTe of
a Scholler. 1596 Shaks. i Hetu /K, v. iii. 43 Many a Nobleman
lies starice and stiffe Vnder the hooues of vaunting
enemies. z6oz Holland Pliuy II. 231, I my selfe have
seen these vaunting Mountebanks calling themselves Psylli.
1633 Sherwood, A vaunting woman, ostentatrice. X714
Gay Sheph. Week i. 39 Begin thy carols, then, thou vaunt,
itig slouch. 1730 Bailey (fob), Braggard, a bragging,
vaunting, vain glorious fellow. X8.X9 Scott Ivanhoe xxxix,
AVouId to God, Richard, or any of his vaunting minions of
England, would appear in these lists ! 1853 Lynch Selfhuprov.
ii. 45 An empty, vaunting person who has brass
enough to face the world and to say there is no God in it.
1884 Marshall's Tennis Cuts 195 In the evenings he was
vaunting, boastful, and declared he could play even Renshaw
at evens.
' vaunting
manner' on several occasions? 1855 Macaulay ///j/.
Eng. xxi, IV. 583 Over one gate had been placed a vaunting
inscription which defied the allies to wrench the piize
from the grasp of France. 1897 Sarah Tytler Lady Jean's
Son 205 Rejoicing over him in a vaunting and insolent
manner,
VaU'ntiugly, odv, [f. prec] In a vaunting
manner ; boastfully, ostentatiously, vaingloriously.
X593 Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 16 Let me speake truely and
not vauntingly. 15^3 Shaks. Rich. II, iv. i. 36, I heard
thee say (and vauntingly thou spak'st it) Tiiat thou wer't
cause of Noble Glousters death. 1611 Cotcr.. Piaffeusement^
braggingly,. .siroutingly, vauntingly. 1636 Prynne
Unbish. /"/?«. Ded. (1661) i Whether seriously or vauntingly
only, let the event determine. 1689 1". Plunkkt Char.
Good Commander, etc. 6 Who threatned vauntingly That
be.. would England Invade. 1798 Ellis in And- Jacobin
1 Jan. (1852)28 And dare you vauntingly decide, 'I'he fortune
we shall meet. 1804 Eugenia de Acton 7'ale without Title
II. 100 Should the scrutiny proclaim your innocence, receive
not vauntingly the clearing verdict. 1836 W. Ihxikg Astoria
1. 91 Upon which Mr. M'Dougal would vauntingly lay down
M r, Asior's letter, . . a document not to be disputed.
t Vau'ntingness. Obs.'~^ [f. Vaunting vbL
sb.'\ Boastfuliiess.
17J7 Bailey (voL II), Ostentatiouiuess^ vauntingness,
bragging, shewiness.
+ Vauntise. Obs."^ [ad. OF.2'i:«//j^vaimting,
vanity, pritle : see -ISE 2.] A vaunt or boast.
c 1477 Caxton JasonA\^\-^ 22 Moche was lason desplaysaunt
whan he had vnderstande the vauntises of bis mortall
ennemy.
Vauntlay. Now a^r^. Alsog (9)vauiitelay.
[f. Vaunt- + -lay as in Relay sb. The compound
may have existed in AF. Cf. Vanlay f.] The
releasing or setting on of a relay of hounds before
the other pursuing hounds have passed ; the relay
of hounds so released,
X486 Bk. St. A Ibans E viij b, Even at his comyng yf thow
lett thy howndys goo While the oder that be behynde fer
am hym froo That is a vauntelay. 16x6 Bullokar Eng.
Expos.^ Vauntlay, a terme of hunting, when they sette
hounds in readynes, where they thinke a chace will passe,
and cast them off before the rest of the kennell come in.
[Hence in Blount (1656), Phillips, Holme, etc.] 01700
_B. E. Diet. Cant. Crew, Vauntlay, Hounds or Beagles set
in readiness [etc.], 184a Sir H. Tavlok Ed2tnn the Fair 1.
vi, She holds them all together ; Relay or vauntlay 'tis the
same to her.
t Vauntmure. Obs. Also 6 vauntemure,
vauntmire, vautmure. [Aphetic form of Avantmure
: see Vant-, Vaunt-.] = Vaumure.
'S^Sa J. Shute tr. CambinVs Turk. Wars 16 b, Throughe
their lonp..neglygence of the Greekes for want of reparation,
their vauntemures were utterlye decaied in many
places. 1583 Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. in, 135 b,
There fell downe a pane of the wall, and vauntmire of the
Towne..sixe and twentie Poles longe. 1596 Danett tr.
Comines (1614) 231 Wherewith the wals, towers, and vant*
mures of the castell and towne were throughly battered.
1605 Camden Rem. (1 623) 206 He with another engine named
the Warwolfe pierced with one stone, and cut as even as a
thread, two Vauntmures.
+ Vauntparler. Cbs. Also vaunt(e)perler,
vauntperlor, -parler, vantperlor, -parlar. [ad.
AF. vaunt-parlour, obs, F, avantparleur * forespeaker
'.]
1. ' One that is too forward to speak ' (Cotgr.),
a 15x9 Skf.lton Sp. Parrot 427 He tryhumfythe, he
trumpythe, he lurnythe all vp and downe. With, skyregalyard,
prowde palyard, vaunteperler, ye prate ! a 1548
Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 36 Then sodainly was ther in y«
counsaill, a vauntparler, a botcher which heryng this, called
a great number of his athnitie and went out ofthe counsayll.
1577 Holinshed Chron. I. 408/1 This Prince .. followed
vpon a wilful I pretence., the councell and aduice of vaunt.
perlors, and suche as (being aduanced from base degree
vnto hygh authorities studyed more to keepe tbem-selues in
fauoure than [etc.}.
2. One who speaks for or on behalf of others; a
spokesman.
1534 .St. Papers, Hen. Vlll (1830) \, 424 It shuld be best
bestowed.. upon Frire Whiiford, and upon Lache, whiche
bee the vauntperlers, and heddes of ihair faction. 1579
Fulke Heskins's Pari. 66 He doeth honestly confesse, that
. .Damascen [was] the first and chiefest of the lower house,
he may make him Vantparlar if he will. 1586 J. Hooker
Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 120/1 Their vantparler was sir
Christopher Barnwell knight, who being somewhat learned,
his credit was so much the more, and by them thought most
..worthie to haue beene the speaker for that house.
fVauntpe. Obs.-** [ad, older F. vantpii^ =
Vamp ji^.i i.
1530 Palsgr. 284/1 Vauntpeof a hose, uantpie.
tVauntplate. Obs.'~^ [f. Vaunt- + Plate j^.]
«= Vamplate.
1631 J. Havward tr. BiondVs Eromena 145 He bore him
a thrust under the vauntplate.
t Vauntsquare, v. Obs.'^ [f. Vaunt- +
Square z^.] intr. To face or front squarely.
1563 Phaek ^neid ix. Aaij, Messapus voward helde, the
rerward kept yong princes twayne Of Tirrhus, but himself
king Turnus midst in battaile mayne, Vauntsquaring spreds
his armes.