hector

bully, a swaggering coward. To hector; to bully, probably from such persons affecting the valour of Hector, the Trojan hero.

Hector
Hector, ŏris (Hectōris, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 39 = Trag. v. 25 Vahl.; id. ap. Varr. L. L. 10, §...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
Hector
·noun A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes. II. Hector ·vi...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Boece, or Boethius, Hector
(1465?-1536) Historian, probably b. at Dundee, and ed. there and at Paris, where he was a regent or...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
MacNeill, Hector
(1746-1818) Poet, was in the West Indies 1780-86, and clerk on a flagship. He wrote various politic...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin