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ow sound. [Obs.] A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath. Bacon.

Cotton; padding. [Obs.]

missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon. They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. Knolles.

One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. [Archaic]

One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard. [Obs.] They . . . made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady. B. Jonson.

n a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.

instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. Grove.

Same as Bombazine.

Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.] A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton.

Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke.

Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.

A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.

A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.

A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments. [Sometimes spelt bombasin, and bombasine.] Tomlinson.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid.

To hum; to buzz. [R.]

A humming sound; a booming. To . . . silence the bombilation of guns. Sir T. Browne.

To hum; to boom.

A humming or buzzing.

A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor. [Written also bumbelo, and bumbolo.]