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A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor. [Written also bumbelo, and bumbolo.]

Secure against the explosive force of bombs. -- n.

A bomb. See Bomb, n.

Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycidæ.

Silken; made of silk. [Obs.] Coles.

Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly. [Obs.] Derham.

A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See Silkworm.

A large South American serpent (Boa aboma).

The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.

Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.

The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley.

In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.

as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

f extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.

A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam.

A defect or malformation; esp., a fissure of the iris supposed to be a persistent embryonic cleft.

Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Meibomius. Meibomian glands, the slender sebaceous glands of the eyelids, which discharge, through minute orifices in the edges of the lids, a fatty secretion serving to lubricate the adjacent parts.

Obversely omegoid.

An instrument to ascertain the degree of friction in rubbing surfaces. Brande & C.

Abominable.