Lyddite

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lyddite \Lydd"ite\, n. (Chem.)
     A high explosive consisting principally of picric acid, used
     as a shell explosive in the British service; -- so named from
     the proving grounds at Lydd, England.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]