Part 1260

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A great noise; a hollow sound.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great <b>bomb</b> in the chamber beneath. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See <er>Shell</er>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A bomb ketch.</def>

<cs><col>Bomb chest</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Bomb ketch</col>, <col>Bomb vessel</col></mcol> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also <altname>mortar vessel</altname>.</cd> -- <col>Bomb lance</col>, <cd>a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing.</cd> -- <col>Volcanic bomb</col>, <cd>a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape.</cd> "I noticed <i>volcanic bombs<i>."</cs>

<i>Darwin.</i>

<h1>Bomb</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bomb</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To bombard.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Prior.</i>

<h1>Bomb</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bomb</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Boom</er>.]</ety> <def>To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Bombace</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bom"bace</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF.]</ety> <def>Cotton; padding.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Bombard</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bom"bard</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>bombarde</ets>, LL. <ets>bombarda</ets>, fr. L. <ets>bombus</ets> + <ets>-ard</ets>. Cf. <er>Bumper</er>, and see <er>Bomb</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Gun.)</fld> <def>A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.</def>

<blockquote>They planted in divers places twelve great <b>bombards</b>, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. <i>Knolles.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A bombardment.</def> <mark>[Poetic & R.]</mark>

<i>J. Barlow.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul <b>bombard</b> that would shed his liquor. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>Padded breeches.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<cs><col>Bombard phrase</col>, <cd>inflated language; bombast. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd></cs>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Bombard</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bom"bard</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>bombarde</ets>, fr. F. <ets>bombarde</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>See <er>Bombardo</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Bombard</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bom*bard"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Bombarded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Bombarding</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.</def>