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

The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.

Thundering; striking terror. Cotgrave.

To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.

To gangrene. [Obs.]

or into a substance like jelly. Lapis lazuli, if calcined, does not effervesce, but gelatinates with the mineral acids. Kirwan.

The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.

In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. Gray.

A doubling; duplication; repetition. [R.] Boyle.

To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ. Bacon.

The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable. Germination apparatus, an apparatus for malting grain.

Pertaining to germination; having power to bud or develop. Germinative spot, Germinative vesicle. (Biol.) Same as Germinal spot, Germinal vesicle, under Germinal.

To unite with glue; to cement; to stick together. Bailey.

The act of uniting with glue; sticking together.

Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.

s; esp., in America, a small biting fly of the genus Simulium and allies, as the buffalo gnat, the black fly, etc. Gnat catcher (Zoöl.), one of several species of small American singing birds, of the genus Polioptila, allied to the kinglets. -- Gnat flower, the bee flower. -- Gnat hawk (Zoöl.), the European goatsucke…

Of or pertaining to the jaw. Gnathic index, in a skull, the ratio of the distance from the middle of the nasofrontal suture to the basion (taken equal to 100), to the distance from the basion to the middle of the front edge of the upper jaw; -- called also alveolar index. Skulls with the gnathic index below 98 are orth…

The ramus of the lower jaw of a bird as far as it is naked; -- commonly used in the plural.

Any one of the mouth appendages of the Arthropoda. They are known as mandibles, maxillæ, and maxillipeds.

Flattering; deceitful. [Obs.]