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expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.

An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive.

One who or that which explodes.

under Dead. -- Blind shell (Gunnery), a shell containing no charge, or one that does not explode. -- Blind side, the side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. Swift. -- Blind snake (Zoöl.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the f…

the air as by an explosion of powder or gas or the expansive force of steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or steam boiler blows up. "The enemy's magazines blew up." Tatler.

meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.

ure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring. From the egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. Milton.

A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his appoach.

used in signaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes. Farrow.

a damp consisting chiefly of light carbureted hydrogen; -- so called from its tendence to explode when mixed with atmospheric air and brought into contact with flame.

To explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur.

te. Detonating gas, a mixture of two volumes of hydrogen with one volume of oxygen, which explodes with a loud report upon ignition. -- Detonating powder, any powder or solid substance, as fulminate of mercury, which when struck, explodes with violence and a loud report. -- Detonating primer, a primer exploded by a f…

To explode, or cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to detonate.

To discharge; to explode. In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton.

out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice. To explode and exterminate rank atheism. Bentley.

To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc.

In the breech mechanism of a firearm, the pin which strikes the head of the cartridge and explodes it.

A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes.

To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.

with wire appendages allowing it to be conveniently attached to a railroad track. It will explode with a loud report when run over by a train, and is used to provide a warning signal to the engineer.