Part 4634

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures.</def>

<cs><col>Fulminating oil</col>, <cd>nitroglycerin.</cd> -- <col>Fulminating powder</col> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fulmination</h1> <Xpage=602>

<hw>Ful"mi*na`tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>fulminatio</ets> a darting of lightning: cf. F. <ets>fulmination</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>fulminations</b> from the Vatican were turned into ridicule. <i>Ayliffe.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fulminatory</h1> <Xpage=602>

<hw>Ful"mi*na*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>fulminatoire</ets>.]</ety> <def>Thundering; striking terror.</def>

<i>Cotgrave.</i>

<h1>Fulmine</h1> <Xpage=602>

<hw>Ful"mine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>fulminer</ets>. See <er>Fulminate</er>, <tt>v.</tt>]</ety> <def>To thunder.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser. Milton.</i>

<h1>Fulmine</h1> <Xpage=602>

<hw>Ful"mine</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence.</def>

<blockquote>She <b>fulmined</b> out her scorn of laws Salique. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fulmineous</h1> <Xpage=602>

<hw>Ful*min"e*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. fulmen thunder.]</ety> <def>Of, or concerning thunder.</def>

<h1>Fulmiaic</h1> <Xpage=602>

<hw>Ful*mia"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>fulminique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically <fld>(Chem.)</fld>, pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; <as>as, fulminic acid</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Fulminic acid</col> <fld>(Chem.)</fld>, <cd>a complex acid, <chform>H2C2N2O2</chform>, 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.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fulminuric</h1> <Xpage=602>

<hw>Ful"mi*nu"ric</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Fulminic</ets> + cyanuric.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called.</def>

<cs><col>Fulminuric acid</col> <fld>(Chem.)</fld>, <cd>a white, crystalline, explosive subatance, <chform>H3C3N3O3</chform>, forming well known salts, and obtained from the fulnunates. It is isomeric with cyanuric acid, and hence is also called isocyanuric acid.</cd></cs>

<h1>Falness</h1> <Xpage=602>

<hw>Fal"ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Fullness</er>.</def>

<h1>Fulsamic</h1> <Xpage=602>

<hw>Ful*sam"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Fulsome</er>.]</ety> <def>Fulsome.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>