BPage 209
- English Word Bomb Definition A bomb ketch.
- English Word Bomb Definition To bombard.
- English Word Bomb Definition To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
- English Word Bombace Definition Cotton; padding.
- English Word Bombard Definition A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
- English Word Bombard Definition A bombardment.
- English Word Bombard Definition A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
- English Word Bombard Definition Padded breeches.
- English Word Bombard Definition See Bombardo.
- English Word Bombard Definition To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
- English Word Bombarded Definition of Bombard
- English Word Bombardier Definition One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
- English Word Bombardier Definition A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
- English Word Bombarding Definition of Bombard
- English Word Bombardman Definition One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard.
- English Word Bombardment Definition An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.
- English Word Bombardo Definition Alt. of Bombardon
- English Word Bombardon Definition Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide.
- English Word Bombasine Definition Same as Bombazine.
- English Word Bombast Definition Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
- English Word Bombast Definition Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
- English Word Bombast Definition Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
- English Word Bombast Definition High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
- English Word Bombast Definition To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
- English Word Bombastic Definition Alt. of Bombastical
- English Word Bombastical Definition Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.
- English Word Bombastry Definition Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.
- English Word Bombax Definition A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.
- English Word Bombazet Bombazette Definition A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.
- English Word Bombazine Definition A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments.