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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Stanch :: Stanch (v. t.) To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst..
Incendiary :: Incendiary (n.) Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.
Fire :: Fire (n.) The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
Extinct :: Extinct (a.) Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano..
Jamb :: "Jamb (n.) The vertical side of any opening, as a door or fireplace; hence, less properly, any narrow vertical surface of wall, as the of a chimney-breast or of a pier, as distinguished from its face..
Scarefire :: Scarefire (n.) An alarm of fire.
Fireproof :: Fireproof (a.) Proof against fire; incombustible.
Repeater :: Repeater (n.) A repeating firearm.
Grass Tree :: Grass tree () An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called blackboys from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides..
Fire :: Fire (n.) Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal.
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..
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly..
Tine :: Tine (v. t.) To kindle; to set on fire.
Fireweed :: Fireweed (n.) The great willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum).
Roast :: Roast (v. t.) To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven..
Priming :: Priming (n.) The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm..
Unshot :: Unshot (a.) Not hit by a shot; also, not discharged or fired off..
Portfire :: Portfire (n.) A case of strong paper filled with a composition of niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells..
Knobbling Fire :: Knobbling fire () A bloomery fire. See Bloomery.
Fire :: Fire (n.) Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace..
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