Definition of fire

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Fire (n.) The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.

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Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass..
Fire :: Fire (n.) The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
Round :: Round (n.) A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
Kindler :: Kindler (n.) One who, or that which, kindles, stirs up, or sets on fire..
Fire-fanged :: Fire-fanged (a.) Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.
Musket :: Musket (n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle..
Breechblock :: Breechblock (n.) The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired..
Firebote :: Firebote (n.) An allowance of fuel. See Bote.
Fizgig :: Fizgig (n.) A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes..
Cock :: Cock (v. i.) To draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for firing..
Stock :: Stock (n.) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage..
Sizzle :: Sizzle (n.) A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire..
Pyrotechny :: Pyrotechny (n.) The use and application of fire in science and the arts.
Ignite :: Ignite (v. i.) To take fire; to begin to burn.
Gabion :: Gabion (n.) A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire..
Burn :: Burn (n.) A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat..
Fere :: Fere (n.) Fire.
Flint :: Flint (n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel..
Carcass :: Carcass (n.) A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc..
Hag :: Hag (n.) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
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