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. Detonating gas, a mixture of two volumes of hydrogen with one volume of oxygen, which explodes with a loud report upon ignition. -- Detonating powder, any powder or solid substance, as fulminate of mercury, which when struck, explodes with violence and a loud report. -- Detonating primer, a primer exploded by a fus…

To explode, or cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to detonate.

To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously. [Cant, U.S.]

To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod. [Obs.]

The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp,etc.

ut; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice. To explode and exterminate rank atheism. Bentley.

To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc.

minous meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes exploding.

the breech mechanism of a firearm, the pin which strikes the head of the cartridge and explodes it.

A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes.

To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.

Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.

The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.

th wire appendages allowing it to be conveniently attached to a railroad track. It will explode with a loud report when run over by a train, and is used to provide a warning signal to the engineer.

A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n. Chemical fuze, a fuze in which substances separated until required for action are then brought into contact, and uniting chemically, produce explosion. -- Concussion fuze, a fuze ignited by the striking of the projectile. -- Electric fuz…

To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off. (c) To die. Shak. (d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of a gun, a mine, etc. (e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of.

A weight which is dropped into a bore, as of an oil well, to explode a cartridge previously lowered.

An implosive sound, an implodent. -- Im*plo"sive*ly, adv. H. Sweet.

nal dealings. Addison. Infernal machine, a machine or apparatus maliciously designed to explode, and destroy life or property. -- Infernal stone (lapis infernalis), lunar caustic; formerly so called. The name was also applied to caustic potash.

mixed with a definite amount of air, the charge is composed in the cylinder and is then exploded either by a flame of gas (flame ignition -- now little used), by a hot tube (tube ignition) or the like, by an electric spark (electric ignition, the usual method is gasoline engines, or by the heat of compression, as in th…