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To burst with a loud report; to explode. "Disploding engines." Young.

Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs.] Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him. Milton.

The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.

An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

The act or operation of eroding or eating away.

A dextrin which gives a red color with iodine. See Dextrin.

lied by Brücke to a substance present in small amount in starch granules, colored red by iodine.

A red dyestuff obtained from fluoresceïn by the action of iodine.

Causing hunger; eating; corroding. [Obs.] Wiseman.

omplish an end. What sure expedient than shall Juno find, To calm her fears and ease her boding mind Philips.

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.

Foreboding death or great disaster. [R.] That fatal screech owl to our house That nothing sung but death to us and ours. Shak.

e; and what I will is fate. Milton. Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments. Froude.

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

c, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of which it is the first member. It always occurs combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such an avidity for most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be prepared nor kept i…

augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. H. James.

The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.

Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.

Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.