| Bombace |
n. |
Cotton; padding. |
| Bombard |
n. |
A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon. |
| Bombard |
n. |
A bombardment. |
| Bombard |
n. |
A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer. |
| Bombard |
n. |
Padded breeches. |
| Bombard |
n. |
See Bombardo. |
| Bombard |
v. t. |
To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into. |
| Bombarded |
imp. & p. p. |
of Bombard |
| Bombardier |
n. |
One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. |
| Bombardier |
n. |
A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery. |
| Bombarding |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Bombard |
| Bombardman |
n. |
One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard. |
| Bombardment |
n. |
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. |
| Bombardo |
n. |
Alt. of Bombardon |
| Bombardon |
n. |
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. |
| Bombasine |
n. |
Same as Bombazine. |
| Bombast |
n. |
Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. |
| Bombast |
n. |
Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. |
| Bombast |
n. |
Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. |
| Bombast |
a. |
High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic. |
| Bombast |
v. t. |
To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. |
| Bombastic |
a. |
Alt. of Bombastical |
| Bombastical |
a. |
Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated. |
| Bombastry |
n. |
Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. |
| Bombax |
n. |
A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax. |
| Bombazet Bombazette |
n. |
A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled. |
| Bombazine |
n. |
A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments. |
