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

A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and fill…

A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade. McCulloch.

ance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.

A bomb or shell. [Obs.]

ce to bees, flies, and other insects. -- Bee fly (Zoöl.), a two winged fly of the family Bombyliidæ. Some species, in the larval state, are parasitic upon bees. -- Bee garden, a garden or inclosure to set beehives in ; an apiary. Mortimer. -- Bee glue, a soft, unctuous matter, with which bees cement the combs to the…

Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions. [Obs.] [They] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady or two, that fainted . . . with fasting. B. Jonson .

See Bombard. [Obs.]

See Bombast. [Obs.]

A glass used in subliming camphor. [Spelled also bombolo and bumbolo.]

A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound.

A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India as a relish; -- called also Bombay duck.

A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

m a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc. A discharge of carcasses and bombshells. W. Iving.