English English Dictionary

See Bombardo.

To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.

of Bombard

One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.

A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.

of Bombard

One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard.

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.

Alt. of Bombardon

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.

Same as Bombazine.

To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.

Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.

Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.

Alt. of Bombastical

Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.

Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.

A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.