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Fire
1) For sacred purposes. The sacrifices were consumed by fire (Gen. 8:20). The ever-burning fire on t...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
to fire
To fling with the hand, as a stone or other missile. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
fire!
The order to put the match to the priming, or pull the trigger of a cannon or other fire-arm so as t...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Fire
is represented as the symbol of Jehovah's presence and the instrument of his power, in the way eithe...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Anthony's Fire
·- ·see Saint Anthony's Fire, under <<Saint>>. ...

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Ash-fire
·noun A low fire used in chemical operations. ...

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Back fire
·add. ·- A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that whe...

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Back-fire
·add. ·vi To have or experience a back fire or back fires; — said of an internal-combustion engine....

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Elmo's fire
·- ·see <<Corposant>>; also Saint Elmo's Fire, under <<Saint>>. ...

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Fire beetle
·- A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central ...

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Fire-fanged
·adj Injured as by fire; burned; — said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy ...

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Fire-new
·adj Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new. ...

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Fire-set
·noun A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker. ...

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Knobbling fire
·- A bloomery fire. ·see <<Bloomery>>. ...

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Pin-fire
·add. ·adj Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge; as, a pin-fire rifle. ...

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Rapid-fire
·add. ·adj ·Alt. of Rapid-firing. ...

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Rim-fire
·add. ·adj Having the percussion fulminate in a rim surrounding the base, distinguished from center-...

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fire priggers
Villains who rob at fires under pretence of assisting in removing the goods. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
fire ship
A wench who has the venereal disease. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
fire shovel
He or she when young, was fed with a fire shovel; a saying of persons with wide mouths. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
spit fire
A violent, pettish, or passionate person. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
bush-fire
n. forests and grass on fire in hotsummers. 1868. C. Dilke, `Greater Britain,' vol. ii. part iii. ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
fire-stick
n. name given to thelighted stick which the Australian natives frequently carryabout, when moving f...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
fire-tree
n. a tree of New Zealand; anothername for Pohutukawa (q.v.). For QueenslandFire-tree, see Tulip-tre...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
to fire away
To begin; to go on. An expression borrowed from the language of soldiers and sailors. A well-known ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
fire-cracker
A little paper cylinder filled with powder or combustible matter, imported from China. It receives i...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
fire-new
New from the forge; brand-new.--Johnson. This old and nearly obsolete expression is sometimes used b...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
cold fire
a fire laid ready for lighting. York. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
shel fire
electric sparks, often seen on clothes at night. Kent. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
fire-elding
The word Fire is redundant; for Elding itself means fuel. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
fire-flaughts
lightning, or the northern lights. N. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
fire-potter
a poker. Lane. ...

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concentrated fire
The bringing the whole or several guns to bear on a single point. ...

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curved fire
A name coming into use with the increasing application of the fire of heavy and elongated shells to ...

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direct fire
One of the five varieties into which artillerists usually divide horizontal fire (which see). ...

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enfilade fire
Is that which sweeps a line of works or men from one end to the other; it is on land nearly the equi...

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fire-flaire
See fiery-flaw ...

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fire-arms
Every description of arms that discharge missiles by gunpowder, from the heaviest cannon to a pistol...

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fire-arrows
Missiles in olden times carrying combustibles; much used in the sea-fights of the middle ages. ...

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fire-away
Go on with your remarks. ...

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fire-ball
In meteorology, a beautiful phenomenon seen at times, the origin of which is as yet imperfectly acco...

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fire-balls
Are used for destroying vessels run aground, and firing buildings. They are made of a composition of...

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fire-bare
An old term from the Anglo-Saxon for beacon. ...

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fire-bars
The range fronting a steam-boiler. ...

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fire-bill
The distribution of the officers and crew in case of the alarm of fire, a calamity requiring judicio...

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fire-booms
Long spars swung out from a ship's side to prevent the approach of fire-ships, fire-stages, or vesse...

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fire-box
A space crossing the whole front of the boiler over the furnace doors, opposite the smoke-box. ...

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fire-buckets
Canvas, leather, or wood buckets for quarters, each fitted with a sinnet laniard of regulated length...

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fire-door
An access to the fire-place of an engine. ...

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fire-drake
A meteor, or the Corpo Santo. Also, a peculiar fire-work, which Shakspeare in Henry VIII. thus menti...

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fire-eater
One notoriously fond of being in action; much humbled by iron-clads. ...

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fire-flaughts
The aurora borealis, or northern lights. ...

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fire-hearth
The security base of the galley-range and all its conveniences. ...

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fire-hoops
A combustible invented by the knights of Malta to throw among their besiegers, and afterwards used i...

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fire-lock
Formerly the common name for a musket; the fire-arm carried by a foot-soldier, marine, or small-arm ...

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fire-rafts
Timber constructions bearing combustible matters, used by the Chinese to destroy an enemy's vessel. ...

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fire-rails
See rails. ...

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fire-roll
A peculiar beat of the drum to order people to their stations on an alarm of fire. Summons to quarte...

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fire-screens
Pieces of fear-nought, a thick woollen felt put round the hatchways in action. ...

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fire-ship
A vessel filled with combustible materials, and fitted with grappling-irons, to hook and set fire to...

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fire-swab
The bunch of rope-yarns sometimes secured to the tompion, saturated with water to cool the gun in ac...

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fire-works
See pyrotechny. ...

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galling-fire
A sustained discharge of cannon, or small arms, which by its execution greatly annoys the enemy. ...

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grazing-fire
That which sweeps close to the surface it defends. ...

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gun-fire
The morning or evening guns, familiarly termed "the admiral falling down the hatchway." ...

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hang-fire
When the priming burns without igniting the cartridge, or the charge does not rapidly ignite after p...

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horizontal fire
From artillery, is that in which the piece is laid either direct on the object, or with but small el...

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plunging fire
A pitching discharge of shot from a higher level, at such an angle that the shot do not ricochet. ...

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port-fire
A stick of composition, generally burning an inch a minute, used to convey fire from the slow-match ...

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vertical fire
In artillery, that directed upward at such an angle as that it will fall vertically, or nearly so, t...

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Rapid-fire mount
·add. ·- A mount permitting easy and quick elevation or depression and training of the gun, and fitt...

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Flame of fire
Is the chosen symbol of the holiness of God (Ex. 3:2; Rev. 2:18), as indicating "the intense, all-co...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Fire Ball Alley
See Partridge Court. ...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Fire Ball court
East out of Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (25 Eliz. 1583) (Lond. Inq. p.m. III. p. 64) to O.S. 25 i...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Fire Ball Court
Near First (Aldermanbury) Postern, London Wall (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the map...

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Fire of London
In 1666, from September 2nd to 6th. Commenced at the house of a baker in Pudding Lane, near London ...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Sun Fire Office
See Bank Buildings1, Cornhill. ...

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to fire a slug
To drink a dram. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
hell fire dick
The Cambridge driver of the Telegraph. The favorite companion of the University fashionables, and th...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
elmo's fire, st.
See compasant. ...

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fire, loss by
Is within the policy of insurance, whether it be by accident, or by the fault of the master or marin...

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fire-and-lights
Nickname of the master-at-arms. ...

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fire-hearth-carline
The timber let in under the beams on which the fire-hearth stands, with pillars underneath, and choc...

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repeating fire-arm
One by which a number of charges, previously inserted, may be fired off in rapid succession, or afte...

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Burnt in the Fire 1666.
Not further identified. ...

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false fire, blue flames
A composition of combustibles filled into a wooden tube, which, upon being set fire to, burns with a...

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Hand in Hand Fire Office
At No. 1 Bridge Street, Blackfriars, on the east side (Elmes, 1831). Est. 1696 in Angel Court, Snow...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Phoenix Assurance Co., Fire Offlce
On the south side of Lombard Street at the northeast corner of Abchurch Lane at No.19 (P.O. Director...

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to fire into the wrong flock
is a metaphorical expression used at the West, denoting that one has mistaken his object, as when a ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
to have one's fat in the fire
is to have one's plans frustrated. A vulgar expression borrowed from the vocabulary of the kitchen. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.