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To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." Drayton.

One who plods; a drudge.

Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding student; a man of plodding habits. --Plod"ding*ly, adv.

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

panded 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.

Formed by implosion. Ellis.

An implosive sound. Ellis.

der 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 fam…

e 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.

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

e, 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.

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

Gay; easy; offhand; frank. The plodding, persevering scupulous accuracy of the one, and the easy, cavalier, verbal fluency of the other, from a complete contrast. Hazlitt.

ork, consisting of a little powder inclossed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; - - often called firecracker.

An American fresh-water fish (Aplodinotus grunniens); -- called also drum.

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.