Defn: One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard. [Obs.] They . . . made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady. B. Jonson.
BOMBARDMENT
Bom*bard"ment, n. Etym: [F. bombardement.]
Defn: An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.
BOMBARDO; BOMBARDON
Bom*bar"do, Bom*bar"don, n. Etym: [It. bombardo.] (Mus.)
Defn: Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. Grove.
BOMBASINE
Bom`ba*sine", n.
Defn: Same as Bombazine.
BOMBAST
Bom"bast, n. Etym: [OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium
a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See
Bombazine.]
1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.] A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton.
2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.] How now, my sweet creature of bombast! Shak. Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least. Stubbes.