FULLING

The art of cleansing, scouring, and pre ing stuff-, cloths •tOCkfngB, , to render then stronger, firmer, lied milling, because these cloths, . are intact scoured by a water mill. (See lire's Dictionary of Arts, Ac.) founds" FULMINATES.of the fulminic(Lat.acid fulmen,with various a thunderbolt.)bases, nil more Corn-or -sed 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 the firmer being used in detonating bonbons, and tile latte i and importantly as a priming for the percu ion cape of gun locks, [s. 497]