Definition of fire

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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..

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Wood :: Wood (n.) Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
Martello Tower :: Martello tower () A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction..
Extinct :: Extinct (a.) Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano..
Footman :: Footman (n.) A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire..
Petronel :: Petronel (n.) A sort of hand cannon, or portable firearm, used in France in the 15th century..
Nipple :: Nipple (n.) Any small projection or article in which there is an orifice for discharging a fluid, or for other purposes; as, the nipple of a nursing bottle; the nipple of a percussion lock, or that part on which the cap is put and through which the fire passes to the charge..
Cinder :: Cinder (n.) Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct..
Onomatopoeia :: Onomatopoeia (n.) The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire..
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar..
Jinnee :: "Jinnee (n.) A genius or demon; one of the fabled genii, good and evil spirits, supposed to be the children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms..
Harquebuse :: Harquebuse (n.) A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock..
Sufferer :: Sufferer (n.) One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea..
Billet :: Billet (n.) A small stick of wood, as for firewood..
Backlog :: Backlog (n.) A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth..
Fireman :: Fireman (n.) A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.
Projectile :: Projectile (n.) A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm..
Castor And Pollux :: Castor and Pollux () See Saint Elmo's fire, under Saint..
Revolver :: Revolver (n.) One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater..
Burn :: Burn (v. i.) To be of fire; to flame.
Fire :: Fire (n.) The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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