blasting

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BL'ASTING, participle present tense Affecting by a blast; preventing from coming to maturity; frustrating; splitting by an explosion of gun powder. BL'ASTING, noun A blast; destruction by a pernicious cause; explosion.
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