Definition of Hoasts

1. hoast [v] - See also: hoast

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoasts

hoary alison
hoary alyssum
hoary golden bush
hoary marmot
hoary marmots
hoary pea
hoary plantain
hoary puccoon
hoary willow
hoas
hoast
hoasted
hoasting
hoastman
hoastmen
hoasts (current term)
hoatzin
hoatzines
hoatzins
hoax
hoaxed
hoaxee
hoaxees
hoaxer
hoaxers
hoaxes
hoaxing
hoaxlike
hoaxster
hoaxter

Literary usage of Hoasts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ionian islands; what they have lost and suffered under the thirty-five by Georgios Drakatos Papanicolas (1851)
"The writer hoasts his " access to official documents" as a qualification for his task. Now, all important official documents, as regards the Ionian Islands ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"... or it may have been a cold, for I had a co]c]) — we all had colds, and the whole household was in a state of "hoasts encountering ..."

3. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1852)
"... and I hope the way to effect it is before you, which is, sith the Lord of hoasts hath said, that works of this nature are carried on, not by might, ..."

4. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"... as he hoasts of. The way he took was, amongst other things, to report, which he says he frequently did, two or thrce votes directly contrary to cach ..."

5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... The sports of glory to the hrave helong," (Retorts Euryalus): " he hoasts no claim Among the great, unlike the sons of fame. ..."

6. An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell Through the Twelve Dominions by Fynes Moryson (1908)
"Towards the confines of Flanders, the hoasts onely cover the table, and a side table, upon which everie passenger hath his glasse, for the French are ..."

7. An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell Through the Twelve Dominions by Fynes Moryson (1908)
"Towards the confines of Flanders, the hoasts onely cover the table, and a side table, upon which everie passenger hath his glasse, for the French are ..."

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