a. Pertaining to a culmen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Culminated p. pr. & vb. n. Culminating (-nā`t&ibreve_;ng. ] [ L. cuimen top or ridge. See Column. ] 1. To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead. [ 1913 Webster ]

As when his beams at noon
Culminate from the equator. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The reptile race culminated in the secondary era. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F.culmination ] 1. The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fulminans, p. pr. of fulminare to lighten: cf. F. fulminant. ] Thundering; fulminating. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cause to explode. Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Fulminated p. pr. & vb. n. Fulminating. ] [ L. fulminatus, p. p. of fulminare to lighten, strike with lightning, fr. fulmen thunderbolt, fr. fulgere to shine. See Fulgent, and cf. Fulmine. ] 1. To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. P. fulminate. See Fulminate, v. i. ] (Chem.) (a) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic. (b) A fulminating powder. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fulminate of gold, an explosive compound of gold; -- called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The mercury salt of fulminic acid (Hg(CNO)2), called also mercury fulminate. It is prepared as gray crystals, and is used primarily in detonators for detonating high explosives, such as dynamite or TNT. [ PJC ]

a. 1. Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fulminating oil, nitroglycerin. --
Fulminating powder (Chem.) any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. fulminatio a darting of lightning: cf. F. fulmination. ] 1. The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. fulminatoire. ] Thundering; striking terror. Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ F. fulminer. See Fulminate, v. ] To thunder. [ Obs. ] Spenser. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence. [ 1913 Webster ]

She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fulmen thunder. ] Of, or concerning thunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Fulminic + cyanuric. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fulminuric acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, explosive substance, H3C3N3O3, forming well known salts, and obtained from the fulminates. It is isomeric with cyanuric acid, and hence is also called isocyanuric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The mercury salt of fulminic acid (Hg(CNO)2), called also fulminate of mercury. It is an explosive compound prepared as gray crystals, and is used primarily in detonators for detonating high explosives, such as dynamite or TNT. It is sensitive to shock and may be detonated by a blow. [ PJC ]

a. Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An amorphous huminlike substance resembling sacchulmic acid, and produced together with it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ulmus an elm: cf. F. ulmine. ] (Chem.) A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation. Cf. Humin. [ Formerly written ulmine. ] [ 1913 Webster ]