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Observatory :: Observatory (n.) A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire.

Pyr- :: Pyr- () Combining forms designating fire or heat; specifically (Chem.), used to imply an actual or theoretical derivative by the action of heat; as in pyrophosphoric, pyrosulphuric, pyrotartaric, pyrotungstic, etc..

Fire :: Fire (v. t.) To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc..

Heat :: Heat (n.) A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric..

Ballproof :: Ballproof (a.) Incapable of being penetrated by balls from firearms.

Malacoderm :: Malacoderm (n.) One of a tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the fireflies..

Round :: Round (n.) A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.

Firewarden :: Firewarden (n.) An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward..

Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.

Fire :: Fire (v. t.) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions; as, to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge..

Crane :: Crane (n.) An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire..

Prometheus :: Prometheus (n.) The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver..

Elmo''s Fire :: Elmo's fire () See Corposant; also Saint Elmo's Fire, under Saint..

Incension :: Incension (n.) The act of kindling, or the state of being kindled or on fire..

Poke :: Poke (v. t.) To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed; hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire..

Enfire :: Enfire (v. t.) To set on fire.

Firecracker :: Firecracker (n.) See Cracker., n., 3..

Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire..

Trigger :: Trigger (n.) A piece, as a lever, which is connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it; especially (Firearms), the part of a lock which is moved by the finger to release the cock and discharge the piece..

Toast :: Toast (v. t.) To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread..

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