Bom*bard" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bombarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Bombarding.] To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
Next, she means to bombard Naples.
Burke.
His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe.
Wood.
Bom`bar*dier" (&?;), n. [F. bombardier.] (Mil.) (a) One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. [Archaic] (b) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
Bombardier beetle (Zoöl.), a kind of beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the B. displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is B. fumans.
Bom"bard*man (&?;), n. 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.
Bom*bard"ment (&?;), n. [F. bombardement.] An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.
{ ||Bom*bar"do (&?;), Bom*bar"don (&?;), } n. [It. bombardo.] (Mus.) Originally, a deep-toned 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.
Bom`ba*sine" (&?;), n. Same as Bombazine.
Bom"bast (bm"bst or bm"bst; 277), n. [OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See Bombazine.] 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.]
A candle with a wick of bombast.
Lupton.
2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.]
How now, my sweet creature of bombast!
Shak.
Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least.
Stubbes.
3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid.
Dryden.
Bom"bast, a. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuffed with epithets of war.
Shak.
Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way.
Cowley.
Bom*bast" (bm*bst" or bm*bst"), v. t. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]
Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed.
Drayton.
{ Bom*bas"tic (bm*bs"tk or bm*bs"tk), Bom*bas"tic*al } (&?;), a. Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv.
A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology.
Burke.
Syn. -- Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
Bom"bast*ry (&?;), n. Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.
Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all.
Swift.
||Bom"bax (&?;), n. [LL., cotton. See Bombast, n.] (Bot.) A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.
{ Bom`ba*zet" Bom`ba*zette" } (&?;), n. [Cf. Bombazine.] A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.
Bom`ba*zine" (&?;), n. [F. bombasin, LL. bombacinium, bambacinium, L. bombycinus silken, bombycinum a silk or cotton texture, fr. bombyx silk, silkworm, Gr. &?;. Cf. Bombast, Bombycinous.] 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.
Bom"bic (&?;), a. [L. bombyx silk, silkworm: cf. F. bombique.] Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid.
Bom"bi*late (&?;), v. i. [LL. bombilare, for L. bombitare. See Bomb, n.] To hum; to buzz. [R.]
Bom`bi*la"tion (&?;), n. A humming sound; a booming.
To . . . silence the bombilation of guns.
Sir T. Browne.
Bom"bi*nate (&?;), v. i. To hum; to boom.
Bom`bi*na"tion (&?;), n. A humming or buzzing.
Bom"bo*lo (&?;), n.; pl. Bomboloes (&?;). [Cf. It bombola a pitcher.] A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor. [Written also bumbelo, and bumbolo.]
Bomb"proof` (&?;), a. Secure against the explosive force of bombs. -- n. A structure which heavy shot and shell will not penetrate.
Bomb"shell` (&?;), n. A bomb. See Bomb, n.
Bom*by"cid (&?;), a. (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycidæ.
Bom*byc"i*nous (&?;), a. [L. bombycinus. See Bombazine.] 1. Silken; made of silk. [Obs.] Coles.
2. Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint. E. Darwin.
Bom*byl"i*ous (&?;), a. [L. bombylius a bumblebee, Gr. &?;.] Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly. [Obs.] Derham.
||Bom"byx (bm"bks), n. [L., silkworm. See Bombazine.] (Zoöl.) A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See Silkworm.
||Bon (&?;), a. [F., fr. L. bonus.] Good; valid as security for something.