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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.

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.