Also 7 bombulation. [f. as prec.: see -ATION. The L. word is bombitātio.] Humming, buzzing, droning sound.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 89. How to abate the vigour thereof, or silence its bombilation, a way is promised by Porta.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Bombilation, a humming as of Bees. Vul. Err.
1885. Pall Mall Gaz., 17 Feb., 2. A concerto of regurgitations and nasal bombilations.
