In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
Bombs
plural of Bomb
• S-bomb, s-bomb
bombs
plural of bomb
bombs
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bomb
• S-bomb, s-bomb
Source: Wiktionary
Bomb, n. Etym: [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or buzzing noise, Gr. .]
1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.] A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath. Bacon.
2. (Mil.)
Definition: A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
3. A bomb ketch. Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion.
– Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar vessel.
– Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing.
– Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape. "I noticed volcanic bombs." Darwin.
Bomb, v. t.
Definition: To bombard. [Obs.] Prior.
Bomb, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Boom.]
Definition: To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.