noun. A false boasting or claim, especially one detrimental to the interests of another.

noun. Extreme restlessness or tossing in bed, as can occur with some forms of acute disease.

noun. A frequent tossing to and fro, especially of the body, as in great pain or high fever; restlessness.

noun. Agitation.

noun. Vain boasting; bragging; in canon law, false boasting; insistence on a wrongful claim, to the annoyance and injury of another.

noun. In Louisiana, an action to recover damages for slander of title to land, or to obtain confirmation of title by a public recognition of it.

noun. Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the prejudice of another's right; false claim.

noun. A frequent tossing or moving of the body; restlessness, as in delirium.

noun. a giving out or boasting by a party that he or she is married to another, whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue.

noun. bragging or boasting, especially in a false manner to another's detriment

noun. extreme restlessness; tossing and turning in bed

noun. (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law)

noun. speaking of yourself in superlatives

noun. (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness

"On the twentieth, wild delirium, On the twentieth, wild delirium, jactitation, passed no urine; small drinks were retained."

jactitation of marriage  

lie  prevarication  queasiness  restlessness  uneasiness  

ague  bluster  boast  boastfulness  boasting