Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An old form of volcano.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A volcano.

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  • noun Obsolete form of volcano.

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Examples

  • I bake my own bread since quite some time and follow the recipe in the booklet I got ... the only problem is that the breat, yummy as it is, usually looks on the top like the crater of a dead vulcano - sunken in!

    Bread Machine Recipe for 100% Whole Wheat Bread with Oats, Bran, and Flax Seed Kalyn Denny 2009

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    Midterm Roundup 2009

  • Also take into mind that, sunspots, vulcano, s the big spot on jupiter etc are all located at around 19,2 degrees.

    the atomic uni-verse 2008

  • Andre Fourie (NP) said the PAGAD-gangs saga was only the smoke of the "crime vulcano we are sitting on".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Deep below there was most probably the most serious crises which, unless immediately contained, had the potential for this vulcano to erupt and destroy the very fabric of society.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The U.N. Department of Humanitarian Affairs is to send an Italian vulcano expert to the area to assess the situation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • The principal elements of the vulcano the eruption of which is yet latent, are in leaders of abolitionists, who are obstinate materialists refusing to make use of the means which are offered them in our message to extinguish the burning vulcano.

    Secret Enemies of True Republicanism Andrew B. Smolnikar

  • Though the first formation of a volcano (Italian, vulcano, from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire) has seldom been witnessed, it would seem that it is marked by earthquake movements followed by the opening of a rent or fissure; but with no such tilting up of the rocks as was once supposed to take place.

    The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877

  • General Washburn and I again visited the mud vulcano to-day.

    The Discovery of Yellowstone Park Nathaniel Pitt Langford 1871

  • "Lecta vulcano" was noted at the end of it, as was not unfrequently the case with the Advocate.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

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  • Earth calcin’d, flies off into the air; the ashes of burning mountains, in vulcano’s, will be carried to great distances.

    April 19, 2011