(1):

(v. i.) A fulminating powder.

(2):

(v. i.) To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.

(3):

(v. t.) To cause to explode.

(4):

(v. i.) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.

(5):

(v. t.) To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; - said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.

(6):

(v. i.) To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.