Definition of fire

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Fire (v. i.) To discharge artillery or firearms; as, they fired on the town..

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Blazing :: Blazing (a.) Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches..
Fire :: Fire (n.) The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were exposed to a heavy fire..
Wildfire :: Wildfire (n.) A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder.
Shooting :: Shooting (n.) A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting..
Defilading :: Defilading (n.) The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected..
Anthony's Fire :: Anthony's Fire () See Saint Anthony's Fire, under Saint..
Flue :: Flue (n.) A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; -- distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes.
Fiery :: Fiery (a.) heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish..
Fire :: Fire (n.) Ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth; consuming violence of temper..
Inflamed :: Inflamed (p. a.) Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
Bead :: Bead (n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim)..
Curfew :: Curfew (n.) A utensil for covering the fire.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework..
Firedrake :: Firedrake (n.) A worker at a furnace or fire.
Blaze :: Blaze (v. i.) To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes..
Stanch :: Stanch (v. t.) To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst..
Siege :: Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade..
Firework :: Firework (n.) A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocke
Smother :: Smother (v. t.) To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire..
Load :: Load (v.) The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder..
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