bombardellet (bombardel)

[Dim. of F. bombarde.] A A portable bombard, or hand-bom bard; the primitive portable firearm of Europe, consisting simply of a hollow cylinder with a B. Jonson, tr. of Horace's Art of Poetry. bomb a set, n. See bombace . bombast (bom'- or bum'båst, formerly bumbast'), n. and a. [Early mod. E. also bumbast; a var., with excrescent -t, of bombase, bombace: see bombace.] I. n. 11. Cotton; the cotton-plant. Clothes made of cotton or bombstt . Hakluyt's Voyages, L. 93. Bombast , the cotton plant growing in Asia. E. Phillips, World of Words. 2t. Cotton or other stuff of soft, loose texture, used to stuff garments; padding. Thy body's bolstered out with bombast and with bags. Gas coigne, Challenge to Beautie. Hence - 3. Figuratively, high-sounding words; inflated or extravagant language; fustian; speech too big and high-sounding for the occasion. Bombast is commonly the delight of that audience which loves poetry, but understands it not. Dryden, Criticism in Tragedy. bombinate bombastt (bom' or bum'båst), v. t. [ Let them pretend what zeal they will, counterfeit religion, blear the world's eyes, bombast themselves. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 195. Then strives he to bombast his feeble lines With far-fetch'd phrase. Bp. Hall , Satires, i. 4. IMG:content-2297.png:[graphic] 2. To beat; baste. I will so codgell and bombaste thee that thou shalt not be able to sturre thyself. Palace of Pleasure (1579). bombastic, bombast i cal (bomor bum-bas'tik, -ti-kal), a . [ bombast , n . , + -ic, -ical .] Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated; extravagant. A theatrical, bombastic , and windy phraseology. Burke , A Regicide Peace. He indulges without measure in vague, bombastic declamation. Macaulay, Sadler's Law of Population. = Syn. Swelling, tumid, stilted, pompous, lofty, grandiloquent, high-flown. bombastically (bomor bum-bas'ti-kal-i), adv. In a bombastic or inflated manner or style. bomb as try (bom'- or bum'bas-tri), n. [ bast + -ry.] Bombastic words; fustian. Bomb as try and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift, Tale of a Tub, Int. Bombax (bom'baks), n. [ML., cotton, a corruption of L. bombyx: see Bombyx.] 1. A genus of silk-cotton trees, natural order Malvaceæ, chiefly natives of tropical America. The seeds are covered with a silky fiber, but this is too short for textile uses. The wood is soft and light. The fibrous bark of some species is used for making ropes. 2t. [l. c.] Same as bombazine. Bombay duck. See bummalo. Bombay shell. See shell. bombazeen (bomor bum-ba-zēn'), n. Same as bombazine. bombazet, bombazette (bomor bum-ba-zet'), n. [ bombazine, bombasine (bom-or bum-ba-zēn'), n. [Also bombazin, bomb as in, bombazeen, formerly bumbazine, bumbasine;