FULMINATING

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.

2.
a.

Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures. Fulminating oil, nitroglycerin. -- Fulminating powder (Chem.) any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate.


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