3. That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or
censure.
The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule.
Ayliffe.
Ful"mi*na*to*ry (?), a. [Cf. F. fulminatoire.] Thundering; striking
terror. Cotgrave.
Ful"mine (?), v. i. [F. fulminer. See Fulminate, v.] To thunder. [Obs.]
Spenser. Milton.
Ful"mine, v. t. To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to
utter with authority or vehemence.
She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique.
Tennyson.
Ful*min"e*ous (?), a. [L. fulmen thunder.] Of, or concerning thunder.
Ful*min"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. fulminique.] 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, the fulminates. Of these,
mercuric fulminate, the most common, is used, mixed with niter, to fill
percussion caps, charge cartridges, etc. Fulminic acid is made by the
action of nitric acid on alcohol.
Ful"mi*nu"ric (?), a. [Fulminic + cyanuric.] (Chem.) Pertaining to
fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called.
Fulminuric acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, explosive substance,
H3C3N3O3, forming well known salts, and obtained from the fulminates.
It is isomeric with cyanuric acid, and hence is also called isocyanuric
acid.
Ful"ness (?), n. See Fullness.