FULMINATORY
Ful"mi*na*to*ry, a. Etym: [Cf. F. fulminatoire.]
Defn: Thundering; striking terror. Cotgrave.
FULMINE
Ful"mine, v. i. Etym: [F. fulminer. See Fulminate, v.]
Defn: To thunder. [Obs.] Spenser. Milton.
FULMINE
Ful"mine, v. t.
Defn: 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. Etym: [L. fulmen thunder.]
Defn: Of, or concerning thunder.
FULMINIC
Ful*min"ic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. fulminique.]
Defn: 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.