jactation

Noun

 * 1) A tossing or shaking of the body; physical agitation, especially while asleep or confined to bed by illness; jactitation.
 * 2) The action of throwing.
 * 3) * 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
 * The projicient hath the stone in his hand, and with force and violence throws his arm, with which jactation the stone doth not move so much as the circumambient Air.
 * 1) Boasting; bragging; showing off.