BOMB

In Artillery, a hollow ball or shell of cast iron, having an orifice through which it is filled with gunpowder, and into whi<-h, when filled, a fusee is insortocl, so adjusted that when the bomb falls at the place intended, the fusee ignites the powder in the shell, and blows it to pieces. The havoc which is thus produced in a besieged t07/n or the ranks of an enemy is often very great. [s. 165]