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   Bomb , n. [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or buzzing noise, Gr. .]
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   A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.]
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   A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath.
   Bacon.
   
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   (Mil.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
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   A bomb ketch.
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   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.
   
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   Bomb, v. t. To bombard. [Obs.]
   Prior.
   
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   Bomb, v. i. [Cf. Boom.] To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.]
   B. Jonson.
   
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