volcanon.

Brit.

/vɒlˈkeɪnəʊ/, U.S.

/vɔlˈkeɪnoʊ/,

/vɑlˈkeɪnoʊ/

Inflections: Plural volcanoes, volcanos.

Forms:

α. 1600s vulcanio (irregular), 1600s– vulcano (now nonstandard).

β. 1600s– volcano.

Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian vulcano.

Etymology: < Italian vulcano, volcano (1555, earliest in translations of Spanish accounts of exploration of the Americas), ultimately < classical Latin Volcānus , Vulcānus and place names of volcanic locations derived from this (see Vulcan n.), but in use as common noun after Spanish volcán (see discussion at Vulcan n.). Compare earlier volcan n. and Vulcan n. 3.

1. Physical Geography. A hill, mountain, or other feature, typically conical in form, that is built up of solidified lava and rock debris and has a crater or vent through which, in periods of activity, molten rock (lava), rock fragments, steam, and gas are emitted from within the planet’s crust; (in early use also) †the crater or vent of such a mountain, etc. (obsolete).As regards their state of activity, volcanoes are standardly characterized as erupting, active (cf. active adj. 11), dormant (cf. dormant adj. 2a), and extinct (cf. extinct adj. 2a).mud, pseudo-, shield volcano, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > volcano > [noun]

Vulcan?a1425

volcan1577

volcano1613

furnace1660

volcanello1669

volcano mountain1693

pseudo-volcano1794

mud volcano1816

salse1831

stratovolcano1894

shield volcano1911

α.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage viii. xiv. 686 A Vulcano or flaming hill, the fire whereof may be seene..aboue 100 miles.

1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies iv. 31 They regarded those mighty Vulcanos, as the courts of Pluto.

1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 762 This Fire keeping no analogy with other Vulcanio's in any of the particulars mentioned in these three quæries, I thought fit to answer them altogether.

1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 25 He that would needs peep into mount Vesuvius, and search the depth of its vulcano's.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xxxix. 42 The vulcano of Lipari, one of the flaming mouths of the infernal world.

1830 W. Taylor Hist. Surv. German Poetry II. 467 Unusual events, earthquakes, inundations, and vulcanoes altered the face of the planet.

1877 J. D. B. Stillman Seeking Golden Fleece viii. 194 The vulcano of Viejo was before us, the landmark for the port of Realejo.

1907 G. F. S. Elliot Chile i. 5 This particular part of the earth's crust has remained disturbed, restless and vacillating from the pre-Silurian age of submarine vulcanoes to the Valparaiso earthquake of 1906.

1996 Italica 73 400 Such modern images of disorder as whirlpools and vulcanos are for him little more than reminders of the void and monotony of primeval chaos.

β. 1665 G. Havers & J. Davies tr. Another Coll. Philos. Conf. French Virtuosi cix. 49 The effects of Volcano's and Subterranean Fires are no less manifest than their cause is unknown.1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 55 The burning mountains or volcano's of the earth.1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. viii. 36 The Seeds of subterraneous Minerals..sometimes cause Earthquakes and furious eruptions of Volcano's.1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 66 A Volcano, or Burning Vent among the Hills.1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 17 Volcano's bellow ere they disembogue.1773 P. Brydone Tour Sicily & Malta I. ii. 30 Of all the volcanos we read of, Strombolo seems to be the only one that burns without ceasing.1781 W. Cowper Heroism 85 Some heav'n-protected isle, Where no volcano pours his fiery flood.1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 329 [He] supposed it to have been once a great habitual volcano, like Vesuvius.1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. §221 Hill country [in the moon] broken up in the most tremendous manner by volcanoes of all sizes.1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography 198 Submarine volcanoes occasionally give rise to new land.1910 Overland Monthly Jan. 49 No more delightful ways of spending a few days than..making a tour of the volcanoes of Japan.1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 35 Paroxysmal eruptions of these volcanoes ejected an immense quantity of pumice and ash.1973 C. Sagan Cosmic Connection (1975) viii. 62 The Mariner 9 photography of the Martian volcanoes, windstreaks, moons, and polar icecaps.2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 8 May a2/6 Although the volcano has been quiet in recent weeks, state officials said the formation of a lava dome means a new eruption is likely soon.

a. figurative and in figurative context. Something which or someone who bursts out, or is liable to burst out, unpredictably into violent or dangerous activity; (also) a potentially explosive situation. In later use often in to sit on a volcano.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > instance or cause of > potential

volcano1690

dynamite1922

the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint > thing or condition liable to

volcano1690

Vesuvius1845

1690 G. Mackenzie Reason ii. 140 These poor deluded People should consider what Mischiefs and Desolations those Vulcanos of Zeal have brought upon this Island by their dreadful Eruptions.

1713 C. Mather Curbed Sinner 23 A whole Nation becomes a formidable Volcano.

1791 Alvarez 170 My sensations are of an impetuosity nothing can equal; my imagination is a volcano.

1834 N. Amer. Mag. Jan. 183 He was a volcano, and was convinced that an eruption must soon take place.

1853 C. Brontë Villette I. ix. 157 On the edge of a moral volcano, that rumbled under my feet.

1898 D. C. Murray Tales 207 You're going to offer your old second-hand volcano of a heart to that fresh innocence?

1909 J. Galsworthy Silver Box i. iii. 16 You're sitting upon a volcano, John.

1939 H. Beyer Hist. Norwegian Lit. xiv. 257 The flame which burned in Ibsen was not that of a torch; he was a volcano.

1983 Listener 27 Jan. 28/3 He exposes to white, middle-class America the nature of the volcano (racism; social injustice; competition; aggression) on which it blithely sits.

1995 R. D. Edwards Ten Lords A-leaping (2008) xix. 149 The febrile quality..and the hint that underneath the surface he was a volcano..came across on television as rather mad.

2004 R. K. Pruthi Brahmo Samaj & Indian Civilization i. 9 In 1919 India was seething with discontent, a veritable volcano.

b. A violent feeling or passion, esp. one in a suppressed state.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [noun] > a (suppressed) violent emotion

volcano1697

1697 T. P. Blount Ess. 143 Blow him into a Flame, and you may see Vulcano's, Hurricans and Borasco's in him.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. ii. 29 A whole volcano of bitter feelings burned in his bosom, and sent streams of fire through his veins.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxv. 352 Nursing this volcano of wrath in his breast.

1883 G. Meredith Woods of Westermain iii Love, the great volcano, flings Fires of lower Earth to sky.

1930 Boys' Life Oct. 17/1 A volcano of resentment against the storekeeper simmered within him.

2010 Daily Tel. 14 Oct. 7/2 Everything they said was enraging him into a volcano of fury.

a. With of: an eruption or discharge of flame, smoke, etc., from a volcano. Now chiefly in extended use: a violent outpouring or blast of fire, liquid, debris, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > sudden or violent > instance of

eruption1699

volcano1699

outrush1872

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > convulsion > [noun] > volcanic activity > eruption

irruption1613

fire1632

incendium1637

eructation1652

volcano1699

eruption1740

explosion1771

eruction1842

extravasation1842

volcanoism1907

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > flame or blaze > sudden burst of

bouffe1477

flash1566

gust1674

volcano1699

spirt1851

flare-up1859

flare1888

a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) i. x. 119 How shall the Earth tremble with dreadful Earthquakes, opening her self with a Thousand Mouths, and casting forth, as it were, whole Volcames [1692 Volcanes; 1699 Volcanos] of Fire and Sulphur.]

1699 V. Mullineaux tr. J. E. Nieremberg Contempl. State Man (ed. 5) i. x. 111 How shall the Earth tremble with dreadful Earthquakes, opening her self with a Thousand Mouths, and casting forth, as it were, whole Volcanos [1672 Volcanies; 1684 Volcames; 1692 Volcanes] of Fire and Sulphur.

1700 J. Jones Myst. Opium Reveal'd xxiii. 253 The Belching up of Vulcano's of Fumes from the Stomach to the Head.

1722 Coll. Misc. Lett. Mist's Weekly Jrnl. I. 65 The very Eruptions, or Vulcano's of Flame, which..are observed to burst out from it on all Sides.

1853 S. B. Brittan & B. W. Richmond Discuss. Anc. & Mod. Spiritualism 58 Volcanos of smoke, with vivid streams of lightning, pour up into the heavens from the crater.

1927 Pop. Sci. Apr. 139/2 We surrounded the hole, panting and cursing, suddenly the boar burst out in a volcano of dirt.

1929 Boys' Life Dec. 5/1 A volcano of flame rose amidships on the Santa Cruz; spars, casks, men, were hurled flaming into the sea.

1998 S. Rhine Bone Voy. x. 230 Large air supply ducts along the walls fed the flames, turning the wood-floored gym into a veritable volcano of fire that belched out through the windows.

b. Something resembling a volcano in emitting fire, debris, etc., explosively or forcefully; spec. a firework of conical shape.

ΚΠ

1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 737 The eclipse That metropolitan volcano's [sc. chimneys] make, Whose Stygian throats breathe darkness all day long.

1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming i. iv On plains [which] no sieging mine's volcano shook.

1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 328 These French do make such a noise in the world, partly with real cannons, partly with artificial volcanoes and puerile pyrotechny of all kinds.

1890 Cent. Dict. Fizgig, a firework, made of damp powder, which makes a hissing or fizzing noise when ignited; in one form called by boys a volcano.

1917 Telephony 24 Nov. 30/2 By using a series of these pipe-forcing jacks..the British were able to explode that man-made volcano which erupted over a front of ten miles, between Ypres and Armentieres..last June.

1978 D. Begley Flyaway xxi. 180 ‘This is a volcano—the most economical way of boiling water there is.’ It was..a water jacket..around a central chimney.

1993 Canad. Geographic May 24/2 She would light firecrackers and volcano cones at her family's cottage..running around scared and delighted by the eruptions.

2001 O. Sacks Uncle Tungsten viii. 78 We made a ‘volcano’ together with ammonium dichromate, setting fire to a pyramid of the orange crystals.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as volcano cone, volcano crater, volcano-fire, volcano mountain, volcano observatory, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > volcano > [noun]

Vulcan?a1425

volcan1577

volcano1613

furnace1660

volcanello1669

volcano mountain1693

pseudo-volcano1794

mud volcano1816

salse1831

stratovolcano1894

shield volcano1911

1693 J. A. Barnard Bohun's Geogr. Dict. (new ed.) 132/2 Epomeus or Epopeus, a Vulcanoe-Mountain in the midst of the Island of Ischia, in the Thuscan Ocean.

1790 Coll. Voy. round World VI. xix. 2174 The next, a volcano-mountain, may readily be known by the smoke issuing from the top.

1804 J. Wolcot Epist. to Ld. Mayor in Wks. (1812) V. 208 A great city orator..and elève of John Wilkes, Of volcano immortality.

1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 30 Like mountain-twins that from each other's veins Catch the volcano-fire and earthquake spasm.

1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxvi. 289 Spongy lavas, which the volcano blast drags hither and thither into ropy coils.

1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. iv. 76 I have seen the other face of it... It is the old volcano land.

1913 Z. Grey Desert Gold xi. 188 It rose slowly to a low dim and dark-red zone of lava, spurred, peaked, domed by volcano cones.

1913 Science 12 Sept. 356/1 In accordance with the working hypothesis at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, the molten magma is due to rise on the approach of the summer solstice.

1947 M. S. Douglas Everglades i. 31 Under the sun glare or the moonlight it would look stranger than a blasted volcano crater.

1999 Independent 31 May i. 11/1 There are so many old volcano cones on the valley floor that it looks like the aftermath of some gargantuan Guy Fawkes' celebration.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Nov. ii. 28/1 Mr. Sweeney often flies over the volcano field near Flagstaff en route to Florida or Texas.

C2.

volcano rabbit n. a small dark brown rabbit, Romerolagus diazi, which has short ears and no tail, and is found only in the mountains of central Mexico.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Romerolagus (volcano rabbit)

volcano rabbit1911

teporingo1969

1911 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 24 228 (heading) The Volcano Rabbit of Mount Iztaccihuatl.

1972 G. Durrell Catch me Colobus ix. 173 The Volcano rabbit lives at a very high altitude..in the pine forests.

2005 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 14 Dec. 34 Mexico's rare volcano rabbit—restricted to the slopes of four volcanoes in the country's remote interior—is one of the species at greatest risk.

volcano-ship n. rare (now historical) a ship carrying explosives, esp. in order to destroy other ships; a fireship.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > fireship

fire vessela1382

palander1524

fire boata1615

fireship1626

mine shipc1643

machine-vessel1694

fire raft1759

catamaran1804

fire-coffer1804

fire-junk1822

volcano-ship1860

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands II. xiii. 157 York..had distinguished himself..by..having sprung on board the burning volcano-ship at the siege of Antwerp.

1996 A. Grey Tokyo Bay xi. 112 Or perhaps the barbarians fired it into the sky from their volcano-ships.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	volcano
释义	volcanon. Brit. /vɒlˈkeɪnəʊ/, U.S. /vɔlˈkeɪnoʊ/, /vɑlˈkeɪnoʊ/ Inflections: Plural volcanoes, volcanos. Forms: α. 1600s vulcanio (irregular), 1600s– vulcano (now nonstandard). β. 1600s– volcano. Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian vulcano. Etymology: < Italian vulcano, volcano (1555, earliest in translations of Spanish accounts of exploration of the Americas), ultimately < classical Latin Volcānus , Vulcānus and place names of volcanic locations derived from this (see Vulcan n.), but in use as common noun after Spanish volcán (see discussion at Vulcan n.). Compare earlier volcan n. and Vulcan n. 3. 1. Physical Geography. A hill, mountain, or other feature, typically conical in form, that is built up of solidified lava and rock debris and has a crater or vent through which, in periods of activity, molten rock (lava), rock fragments, steam, and gas are emitted from within the planet’s crust; (in early use also) †the crater or vent of such a mountain, etc. (obsolete).As regards their state of activity, volcanoes are standardly characterized as erupting, active (cf. active adj. 11), dormant (cf. dormant adj. 2a), and extinct (cf. extinct adj. 2a).mud, pseudo-, shield volcano, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > volcano > [noun] Vulcan?a1425 volcan1577 volcano1613 furnace1660 volcanello1669 volcano mountain1693 pseudo-volcano1794 mud volcano1816 salse1831 stratovolcano1894 shield volcano1911 α. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage viii. xiv. 686 A Vulcano or flaming hill, the fire whereof may be seene..aboue 100 miles. 1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies iv. 31 They regarded those mighty Vulcanos, as the courts of Pluto. 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 762 This Fire keeping no analogy with other Vulcanio's in any of the particulars mentioned in these three quæries, I thought fit to answer them altogether. 1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 25 He that would needs peep into mount Vesuvius, and search the depth of its vulcano's. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xxxix. 42 The vulcano of Lipari, one of the flaming mouths of the infernal world. 1830 W. Taylor Hist. Surv. German Poetry II. 467 Unusual events, earthquakes, inundations, and vulcanoes altered the face of the planet. 1877 J. D. B. Stillman Seeking Golden Fleece viii. 194 The vulcano of Viejo was before us, the landmark for the port of Realejo. 1907 G. F. S. Elliot Chile i. 5 This particular part of the earth's crust has remained disturbed, restless and vacillating from the pre-Silurian age of submarine vulcanoes to the Valparaiso earthquake of 1906. 1996 Italica 73 400 Such modern images of disorder as whirlpools and vulcanos are for him little more than reminders of the void and monotony of primeval chaos. β. 1665 G. Havers & J. Davies tr. Another Coll. Philos. Conf. French Virtuosi cix. 49 The effects of Volcano's and Subterranean Fires are no less manifest than their cause is unknown.1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 55 The burning mountains or volcano's of the earth.1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. viii. 36 The Seeds of subterraneous Minerals..sometimes cause Earthquakes and furious eruptions of Volcano's.1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 66 A Volcano, or Burning Vent among the Hills.1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 17 Volcano's bellow ere they disembogue.1773 P. Brydone Tour Sicily & Malta I. ii. 30 Of all the volcanos we read of, Strombolo seems to be the only one that burns without ceasing.1781 W. Cowper Heroism 85 Some heav'n-protected isle, Where no volcano pours his fiery flood.1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 329 [He] supposed it to have been once a great habitual volcano, like Vesuvius.1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. §221 Hill country [in the moon] broken up in the most tremendous manner by volcanoes of all sizes.1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography 198 Submarine volcanoes occasionally give rise to new land.1910 Overland Monthly Jan. 49 No more delightful ways of spending a few days than..making a tour of the volcanoes of Japan.1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 35 Paroxysmal eruptions of these volcanoes ejected an immense quantity of pumice and ash.1973 C. Sagan Cosmic Connection (1975) viii. 62 The Mariner 9 photography of the Martian volcanoes, windstreaks, moons, and polar icecaps.2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 8 May a2/6 Although the volcano has been quiet in recent weeks, state officials said the formation of a lava dome means a new eruption is likely soon. 2. a. figurative and in figurative context. Something which or someone who bursts out, or is liable to burst out, unpredictably into violent or dangerous activity; (also) a potentially explosive situation. In later use often in to sit on a volcano. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > instance or cause of > potential volcano1690 dynamite1922 the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint > thing or condition liable to volcano1690 Vesuvius1845 1690 G. Mackenzie Reason ii. 140 These poor deluded People should consider what Mischiefs and Desolations those Vulcanos of Zeal have brought upon this Island by their dreadful Eruptions. 1713 C. Mather Curbed Sinner 23 A whole Nation becomes a formidable Volcano. 1791 Alvarez 170 My sensations are of an impetuosity nothing can equal; my imagination is a volcano. 1834 N. Amer. Mag. Jan. 183 He was a volcano, and was convinced that an eruption must soon take place. 1853 C. Brontë Villette I. ix. 157 On the edge of a moral volcano, that rumbled under my feet. 1898 D. C. Murray Tales 207 You're going to offer your old second-hand volcano of a heart to that fresh innocence? 1909 J. Galsworthy Silver Box i. iii. 16 You're sitting upon a volcano, John. 1939 H. Beyer Hist. Norwegian Lit. xiv. 257 The flame which burned in Ibsen was not that of a torch; he was a volcano. 1983 Listener 27 Jan. 28/3 He exposes to white, middle-class America the nature of the volcano (racism; social injustice; competition; aggression) on which it blithely sits. 1995 R. D. Edwards Ten Lords A-leaping (2008) xix. 149 The febrile quality..and the hint that underneath the surface he was a volcano..came across on television as rather mad. 2004 R. K. Pruthi Brahmo Samaj & Indian Civilization i. 9 In 1919 India was seething with discontent, a veritable volcano. b. A violent feeling or passion, esp. one in a suppressed state. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [noun] > a (suppressed) violent emotion volcano1697 1697 T. P. Blount Ess. 143 Blow him into a Flame, and you may see Vulcano's, Hurricans and Borasco's in him. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. ii. 29 A whole volcano of bitter feelings burned in his bosom, and sent streams of fire through his veins. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxv. 352 Nursing this volcano of wrath in his breast. 1883 G. Meredith Woods of Westermain iii Love, the great volcano, flings Fires of lower Earth to sky. 1930 Boys' Life Oct. 17/1 A volcano of resentment against the storekeeper simmered within him. 2010 Daily Tel. 14 Oct. 7/2 Everything they said was enraging him into a volcano of fury. 3. a. With of: an eruption or discharge of flame, smoke, etc., from a volcano. Now chiefly in extended use: a violent outpouring or blast of fire, liquid, debris, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > sudden or violent > instance of eruption1699 volcano1699 outrush1872 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > convulsion > [noun] > volcanic activity > eruption irruption1613 fire1632 incendium1637 eructation1652 volcano1699 eruption1740 explosion1771 eruction1842 extravasation1842 volcanoism1907 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > flame or blaze > sudden burst of bouffe1477 flash1566 gust1674 volcano1699 spirt1851 flare-up1859 flare1888 a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) i. x. 119 How shall the Earth tremble with dreadful Earthquakes, opening her self with a Thousand Mouths, and casting forth, as it were, whole Volcames [1692 Volcanes; 1699 Volcanos] of Fire and Sulphur.] 1699 V. Mullineaux tr. J. E. Nieremberg Contempl. State Man (ed. 5) i. x. 111 How shall the Earth tremble with dreadful Earthquakes, opening her self with a Thousand Mouths, and casting forth, as it were, whole Volcanos [1672 Volcanies; 1684 Volcames; 1692 Volcanes] of Fire and Sulphur. 1700 J. Jones Myst. Opium Reveal'd xxiii. 253 The Belching up of Vulcano's of Fumes from the Stomach to the Head. 1722 Coll. Misc. Lett. Mist's Weekly Jrnl. I. 65 The very Eruptions, or Vulcano's of Flame, which..are observed to burst out from it on all Sides. 1853 S. B. Brittan & B. W. Richmond Discuss. Anc. & Mod. Spiritualism 58 Volcanos of smoke, with vivid streams of lightning, pour up into the heavens from the crater. 1927 Pop. Sci. Apr. 139/2 We surrounded the hole, panting and cursing, suddenly the boar burst out in a volcano of dirt. 1929 Boys' Life Dec. 5/1 A volcano of flame rose amidships on the Santa Cruz; spars, casks, men, were hurled flaming into the sea. 1998 S. Rhine Bone Voy. x. 230 Large air supply ducts along the walls fed the flames, turning the wood-floored gym into a veritable volcano of fire that belched out through the windows. b. Something resembling a volcano in emitting fire, debris, etc., explosively or forcefully; spec. a firework of conical shape. ΚΠ 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 737 The eclipse That metropolitan volcano's [sc. chimneys] make, Whose Stygian throats breathe darkness all day long. 1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming i. iv On plains [which] no sieging mine's volcano shook. 1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 328 These French do make such a noise in the world, partly with real cannons, partly with artificial volcanoes and puerile pyrotechny of all kinds. 1890 Cent. Dict. Fizgig, a firework, made of damp powder, which makes a hissing or fizzing noise when ignited; in one form called by boys a volcano. 1917 Telephony 24 Nov. 30/2 By using a series of these pipe-forcing jacks..the British were able to explode that man-made volcano which erupted over a front of ten miles, between Ypres and Armentieres..last June. 1978 D. Begley Flyaway xxi. 180 ‘This is a volcano—the most economical way of boiling water there is.’ It was..a water jacket..around a central chimney. 1993 Canad. Geographic May 24/2 She would light firecrackers and volcano cones at her family's cottage..running around scared and delighted by the eruptions. 2001 O. Sacks Uncle Tungsten viii. 78 We made a ‘volcano’ together with ammonium dichromate, setting fire to a pyramid of the orange crystals. Compounds C1. General attributive, as volcano cone, volcano crater, volcano-fire, volcano mountain, volcano observatory, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > volcano > [noun] Vulcan?a1425 volcan1577 volcano1613 furnace1660 volcanello1669 volcano mountain1693 pseudo-volcano1794 mud volcano1816 salse1831 stratovolcano1894 shield volcano1911 1693 J. A. Barnard Bohun's Geogr. Dict. (new ed.) 132/2 Epomeus or Epopeus, a Vulcanoe-Mountain in the midst of the Island of Ischia, in the Thuscan Ocean. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World VI. xix. 2174 The next, a volcano-mountain, may readily be known by the smoke issuing from the top. 1804 J. Wolcot Epist. to Ld. Mayor in Wks. (1812) V. 208 A great city orator..and elève of John Wilkes, Of volcano immortality. 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 30 Like mountain-twins that from each other's veins Catch the volcano-fire and earthquake spasm. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxvi. 289 Spongy lavas, which the volcano blast drags hither and thither into ropy coils. 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. iv. 76 I have seen the other face of it... It is the old volcano land. 1913 Z. Grey Desert Gold xi. 188 It rose slowly to a low dim and dark-red zone of lava, spurred, peaked, domed by volcano cones. 1913 Science 12 Sept. 356/1 In accordance with the working hypothesis at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, the molten magma is due to rise on the approach of the summer solstice. 1947 M. S. Douglas Everglades i. 31 Under the sun glare or the moonlight it would look stranger than a blasted volcano crater. 1999 Independent 31 May i. 11/1 There are so many old volcano cones on the valley floor that it looks like the aftermath of some gargantuan Guy Fawkes' celebration. 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Nov. ii. 28/1 Mr. Sweeney often flies over the volcano field near Flagstaff en route to Florida or Texas. C2. volcano rabbit n. a small dark brown rabbit, Romerolagus diazi, which has short ears and no tail, and is found only in the mountains of central Mexico. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Romerolagus (volcano rabbit) volcano rabbit1911 teporingo1969 1911 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 24 228 (heading) The Volcano Rabbit of Mount Iztaccihuatl. 1972 G. Durrell Catch me Colobus ix. 173 The Volcano rabbit lives at a very high altitude..in the pine forests. 2005 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 14 Dec. 34 Mexico's rare volcano rabbit—restricted to the slopes of four volcanoes in the country's remote interior—is one of the species at greatest risk. volcano-ship n. rare (now historical) a ship carrying explosives, esp. in order to destroy other ships; a fireship. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > fireship fire vessela1382 palander1524 fire boata1615 fireship1626 mine shipc1643 machine-vessel1694 fire raft1759 catamaran1804 fire-coffer1804 fire-junk1822 volcano-ship1860 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands II. xiii. 157 York..had distinguished himself..by..having sprung on board the burning volcano-ship at the siege of Antwerp. 1996 A. Grey Tokyo Bay xi. 112 Or perhaps the barbarians fired it into the sky from their volcano-ships. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). volcanov. Brit. /vɒlˈkeɪnəʊ/, U.S. /vɔlˈkeɪnoʊ/, /vɑlˈkeɪnoʊ/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: volcano n. Etymology: < volcano n. 1. transitive. To attack, utter, etc., violently or explosively, in a manner suggestive of a volcano. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] assail?c1225 to set on ——c1290 saila1300 to turn one's handc1325 lashc1330 to set against ——c1330 impugnc1384 offendc1385 weighc1386 checka1400 to lay at?a1400 havec1400 to set at ——c1430 fraya1440 rehetea1450 besail1460 fray1465 tuilyie1487 assaulta1500 enterprise?1510 invade1513 sturt1513 attempt1546 lay1580 tilt1589 to fall aboard——1593 yoke1596 to let into1598 to fall foul1602 attack1655 do1780 to go in at1812 to pitch into ——1823 tackle1828 vampire1832 bushwhack1837 to go for ——1838 take1864 pile1867 volcano1867 to set about ——1879 vampirize1888 to get stuck into1910 to take to ——1911 weigh1941 rugby-tackle1967 rugger-tackle1967 1867 G. Meredith Vittoria II. xxix. 236 Manœuvre your cigar. The plan is, to give half-a-dozen bright puffs, and..when you see an Italian head, volcano him like fury. 2008 Irish Independent (Nexis) 31 Oct. ‘Shame, shame, shame!’ volcanoed a very red James. 2. intransitive. To erupt or burst forth, esp. violently. Also with into, out of, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > become fire [verb (intransitive)] > belch fire volcano1878 1878 Harper's Mag. Feb. 432 The great cannon volcanoing through all. 1919 F. Grendon Nixola of Wall Street xx. 359 Mr. Kyrion's complicated emotions volcanoed into a fit of coughing. 1997 J. O'Donnell in Independent (Nexis) 9 Mar. 24 The birds volcanoed upwards, shit and feathers flying far and wide. 2010 S. Mukherjee Emperor all Maladies 307 A moody, saturnine leukemia eventually volcanoed out of Sontag's marrow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > see also also refers to : volcano-comb. form < n.1613v.1867 see also
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