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Bomb (&unr_;), n. [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or buzzing noise, Gr. &unr_;.]
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1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.]
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A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath.
Bacon.
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2. (Mil.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
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3. A bomb ketch.
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Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion. -- Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar vessel. -- Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing. -- Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape. “I noticed volcanic bombs.” Darwin.
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Bomb, v. t. To bombard. [Obs.] Prior.
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Bomb, v. i. [Cf. Boom.] To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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