Verb

(en verb)

To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious;—with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough.

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To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury.

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To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.

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To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.

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Verb

(en verb)

To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.

* Beaconsfield

a man who swaggers about London clubs

To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.

* Collier

To be great is not to swagger at our footmen.

(Jonathan Swift)