FULLING

The art of cleansing, scouring, and pre ing stufft, cloths, stockings, ., to render them stronger, firmer, and closer; it is also c^WeA milling, because these cloths, . are in fact scoured by a water mill. (See L're's Dictionary of Arts, 8(C.) FULMINATES. {l.at.i\i\men,a thunderbolt.) Compounds of the fulminic acid with various bases, all more or le po e ed of the property of exploding or detonating by heat or friction. The fulminates of silver and mercury (or fulminating silver and mercury) are objects of manufacturing interest; the former being used in detonating bonbons, and the latter more largely and importantly as a priming for the percu ion caps of gun locks. [s. 492]