- To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to
detonate; to explode with a violent report. - To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the
assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces. - To cause to explode. - To utter or send out with denunciations or censures;
-- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical
authority. - A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic. - A fulminating powder.
- Signal flare - A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil. - A fuse. See Fuse, n. - A kind of match for lighting a pipe or cigar. - A small packet of explosive material with wire appendages
allowing it to be conveniently attached to a railroad track. It will
explode with a loud report when run over by a train, and is used to
provide a warning signal to the engineer. - The track of a buck. - The cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed to
equalize the power of the mainspring by having the chain from the
barrel which contains the spring wind in a spiral groove on the surface
of the cone in such a manner that the diameter of the cone at the point
where the chain acts may correspond with the degree of tension of the
spring.