Part 1261

<blockquote>Next, she means to <b>bombard</b> Naples. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>His fleet <b>bombarded</b> and burnt down Dieppe. <i>Wood.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bombardier</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bom`bar*dier"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>bombardier</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.</def>

<cs><col>Bombardier beetle</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a kind of beetle (<spn>Brachinus crepitans</spn>), 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 <spn>B. displosor</spn>, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is <spn>B. fumans</spn>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Bombardman</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bom"bard*man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>They . . . made room for a <b>bombardman</b> that brought bouge for a country lady. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bombardment</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bom*bard"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>bombardement</ets>.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Bombardo, Bombardon</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw><hw>Bom*bar"do</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Bom*bar"don</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[It. <ets>bombardo</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name <i>bombardon</i> is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide.</def>

<i>Grove.</i>

<h1>Bombasine</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bom`ba*sine"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Bombazine</er>.</def>

<h1>Bombast</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bom"bast</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>bombace</ets> cotton, LL. <ets>bombax</ets> cotton, <ets>bombasium</ets> a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See <er>Bombazine</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>A candle with a wick of <b>bombast</b>. <i>Lupton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>How now, my sweet creature of <b>bombast</b>! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of <b>bombast</b> at least. <i>Stubbes.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.</def>

<blockquote>Yet noisy <b>bombast</b> carefully avoid. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bombast</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bom"bast</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.</def>

<blockquote> evades them with a <b>bombast</b> circumstance, <blockquote>Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Nor a tall metaphor in <b>bombast</b> way. <i>Cowley.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bombast</h1> <Xpage=164>