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Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime..

Scald :: Scald (v. t.) To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat..

Roast :: Roast (v. i.) To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven..

Smoky :: Smoky (superl.) Emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid; as, smoky fires..

Fireboard :: Fireboard (n.) A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use.

Beltane :: Beltane (n.) A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland..

Retractor :: Retractor (n.) In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel..

Muzzle-loader :: Muzzle-loader (n.) A firearm which receives its charge through the muzzle, as distinguished from one which is loaded at the breech..

Alive :: Alive (a.) In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent; as, to keep the fire alive; to keep the affections alive..

Beacon :: Beacon (n.) A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning..

Bream :: Bream (v. t.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping..

Knobbling Fire :: Knobbling fire () A bloomery fire. See Bloomery.

Parch :: Parch (v. t.) To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn..

Orpiment :: Orpiment (n.) Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment. It is used in king's yellow, in white Indian fire, and in certain technical processes, as indigo printing..

Neighborhood :: Neighborhood (n.) The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood..

Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block..

Fire :: Fire (n.) The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were exposed to a heavy fire..

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

Barbette :: Barbette (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet..

Fire :: Fire (n.) Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace..

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