[f. BURST v. + -ING2.] That bursts (see senses of the verb).
a. 1000. Sax. Leechd., I. 272. Untrumnissa ðæs lichoman þæt is berstende lic.
1667. Milton, P. L., IX. 98. Bursting passion.
1714. Young, Force Relig., II. 210. Afar his bursting groans were heard.
1777. Sir W. Jones, Palace of Fort., 15. As distant thunder breaks the bursting cloud.
1847. Longf., Evan., I. ii. 99. From our bursting barns they would feed.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea, V. i. (1877), 245. Fragments … from a bursting shell.
