bombastry

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BOM'BASTRY, noun Swelling words without much meaning; fustian. BOMB'-CHEST, noun [bomb and chest.] A chest filled with bombs or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to make destruction by its displosion.
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