Fulmination
(Ful"mi*na`tion) n. [L. fulminatio a darting of lightning: cf. F. fulmination.]
1. The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.
2. The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.
3. That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.
The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule.
Ayliffe. Fulminatory
(Ful"mi*na*to*ry) a. [Cf. F. fulminatoire.] Thundering; striking terror. Cotgrave.
Fulmine
(Ful"mine) v. i. [F. fulminer. See Fulminate, v.] To thunder. [Obs.] Spenser. Milton.
Fulmine
(Ful"mine), v. t. To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence.
She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique.
Tennyson. Fulmineous
(Ful*min"e*ous) a. [L. fulmen thunder.] Of, or concerning thunder.
Fulminic
(Ful*min"ic) a. [Cf. F. fulminique.] Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (Chem.),
pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulminic acid.
Fulminic acid (Chem.), a complex acid, H2C2N2O2, isomeric with cyanic and cyanuric acids, and
not known in the free state, but forming a large class of highly explosive salts, the fulminates. Of these,
mercuric fulminate, the most common, is used, mixed with niter, to fill percussion caps, charge cartridges,
etc. Fulminic acid is made by the action of nitric acid on alcohol.
Fulminuric
(Ful"mi*nu"ric) a. [Fulminic + cyanuric.] (Chem.) Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids,
and designating an acid so called.
Fulminuric acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, explosive substance, H3C3N3O3, forming well known
salts, and obtained from the fulminates. It is isomeric with cyanuric acid, and hence is also called isocyanuric
acid.
Fulness
(Ful"ness) n. See Fullness.
Fulsamic
(Ful*sam"ic) a. [See Fulsome.] Fulsome. [Obs.]
Fulsome
(Ful"some) a. [Full, a. + -some.]
1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.]
His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh.
Golding. 2. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive
from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.
And lest the fulsome artifice should fail
Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil.
Cowper. 3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. [Obs.] "Fulsome ewes." Shak.
— Ful"some*ly, adv. — Ful"some*ness, n. Dryden.
Fulvid
(Ful"vid) a. [LL. fulvidus, fr. L. fulvus.] Fulvous. [R.] Dr. H. More.
Fulvous
(Ful"vous) a. [L. fulvus.] Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown. Lindley.
