Definition of fire

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

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Mace :: Mace (n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor..
Retractor :: Retractor (n.) In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel..
Firing :: Firing (n.) Fuel; firewood or coal.
Die :: Die (v. i.) To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought..
Kindle :: Kindle (v. t.) Fig.: To inflame, as the passions; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; to incite; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame..
Hot :: Hot (superl.) Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager..
Fire :: Fire (n.) The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
Pyromorphous :: Pyromorphous (a.) Having the property of crystallizing by the agency of fire.
Stokey :: Stoker (v. t.) A fire poker.
Torrefy :: Torrefy (v. t.) To dry by a fire.
Tallwood :: Tallwood (n.) Firewood cut into billets of a certain length.
Smoky :: Smoky (superl.) Subject to be filled with smoke from chimneys or fireplace; as, a smoky house..
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..
Platoon :: Platoon (n.) Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square..
Ballproof :: Ballproof (a.) Incapable of being penetrated by balls from firearms.
Touchhole :: Touchhole (n.) The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge..
Patrol :: Patrol (v. i.) Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol..
Fire :: Fire (n.) The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.
Out :: Out (a.) Beyond the limit of existence, continuance, or supply; to the end; completely; hence, in, or into, a condition of extinction, exhaustion, completion; as, the fuel, or the fire, has burned out..
Midfeather :: Midfeather (n.) A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.
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