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A vesicatory.

Volcanic. [R.] Keats.

Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.

A column of igneous rock formed by congelation of lava in the conduit of a volcano and later exposed by the removal of surrounding rocks.

A wind associated with a volcanic outburst and due to the eruption or to convection currents over hot lava.

Like a volcano.

Quality or state of being volcanic; volcanic power.

Volcanic power or action; volcanicity.

One versed in the history and phenomena of volcanoes.

The quality or state of being volcanic, or volcanic origin; volcanicity. [R.]

The act of volcanizing, or the state of being volcanized; the process of undergoing volcanic heat, and being affected by it.

To subject to, or cause to undergo, volcanic heat, and to be affected by its action.

A mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; -- often popularly called a burning mountain.

The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Hephæstus.

A dynamite composed of nitroglycerin (30 parts), sodium nitrate (52.5), charcoal (10.5), and sulphur (7), used in mining and blasting.

Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; hence, of or pertaining to works in iron or other metals. Ingenious allusions to the Vulcanian panoply which Achilles lent to his feebler friend. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; Vulcanian.

Volcanicity.

Volcanism.

A volcanist.