Dictionary entry

Fulminating

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ful″mi‐na″ting (?), a. 1. Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.

2. Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures.

Fulminating oil, nitroglycerin. — Fulminating powder(Chem.) any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate.