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FULMINATION n. 3 definitions

The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.

Thundering; striking terror. Cotgrave.

FULMINE v. 2 definitions

To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence. She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique. Tennyson.

Of, or concerning thunder.

Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (Chem.), pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulminic acid. Fulminic acid (Chem.), a complex acid, H2C2N2O2, isomeric with cyanic and cyanuric acids, and not known in the free state, but forming a large class of highly explosive salts, th…

Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called. Fulminuric acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, explosive subatance, H3C3N3O3, forming well known salts, and obtained from the fulnunates. It is isomeric with cyanuric acid, and hence is also called isocyanuric acid.

FULNESS n. 2 definitions

Fulsome. [Obs.]

FULSOME a. 3 definitions

Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.] His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. Golding.

Fulvous. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown. Lindley.

To play upon a fiddle. [Obs.] Follow me, and fum as you go. B. Jonson.

Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco.

FUMADE; FUMADO n.

A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.

Hearth money. Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone.

A salt of fumaric acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (Fumaria officinalis). Fumaric acid (Chem.), a widely occurring organic acid, exttracted from fumitory as a white crystallline substance, C2H2(CO2H)2, and produced artificially in many ways, as by the distillation of malic acid; boletic acid. It is found also in the lichen, Icel…

An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.

A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.

An air-tight compartment in which vapor may be generated to destroy germs or insects; esp., the apparatus used to destroy San José scale on nursery stock, with hydrocyanic acid vapor.