VOLCANIC BOMB DEFINITIONS - 2 definitions found
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 
Volcanic \Vol*can"ic\, a. [Cf. F. volcanique, It. vulcanico.]
1. Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic
heat.
2. Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous
agencies; as, volcanic tufa.
3. Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
Volcanic bomb, a mass ejected from a volcano, often of
molten lava having a rounded form.
Volcanic cone, a hill, conical in form, built up of
cinders, tufa, or lava, during volcanic eruptions.
Volcanic foci, the subterranean centers of volcanic action;
the points beneath volcanoes where the causes producing
volcanic phenomena are most active.
Volcanic glass, the vitreous form of lava, produced by
sudden cooling; obsidian. See Obsidian.
Volcanic mud, fetid, sulphurous mud discharged by a
volcano.
Volcanic rocks, rocks which have been produced from the
discharges of volcanic matter, as the various kinds of
basalt, trachyte, scoria, obsidian, etc., whether compact,
scoriaceous, or vitreous.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 
Bomb \Bomb\, n. [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.) 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.
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