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Inflammation :: Inflammation (n.) The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed..

Fire-set :: Fire-set (n.) A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker..

Beltane :: Beltane (n.) A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland..

Balefire :: Balefire (n.) A signal fire; an alarm fire.

Steamer :: Steamer (n.) A steam fire engine. See under Steam.

Vesta :: Vesta (n.) One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it..

Hearthstone :: Hearthstone (n.) Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home..

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..

Helena :: Helena (n.) See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint..

Broil :: Broil (v. i.) To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat..

Reredos :: Reredos (n.) The back of a fireplace.

Fire :: Fire (v. t.) To animate; to give life or spirit to; as, to fire the genius of a young man..

Wildfire :: Wildfire (n.) An old name for erysipelas.

Extinguishment :: Extinguishment (n.) The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection..

Gehenna :: Gehenna (n.) The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell..

Unshot :: Unshot (a.) Not hit by a shot; also, not discharged or fired off..

Firing :: Firing (n.) Fuel; firewood or coal.

Rouet :: Rouet (n.) A small wheel formerly fixed to the pan of firelocks for discharging them.

Coke :: Coke (n.) Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where / smokeless fire is required..

Lightwood :: Lightwood (n.) Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze..

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