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Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like..

Musketry :: Musketry (n.) The fire of muskets.

Fire-new :: Fire-new (a.) Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new.

Tuyere :: Tuyere (n.) A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge..

Ignify :: Ignify (v. t.) To form into fire.

Shirred :: Shirred (a.) Broken into an earthen dish and baked over the fire; -- said of eggs.

Purgation :: Purgation (n.) The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal..

Extinct :: Extinct (a.) Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano..

Emit :: Emit (v. t.) To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light..

Ball :: Ball (n.) A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball..

Kindler :: Kindler (n.) One who, or that which, kindles, stirs up, or sets on fire..

Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame..

Pepper :: Pepper (v. i.) To fire numerous shots (at).

Blow :: Blow (n.) The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows..

Girandole :: Girandole (n.) A kind of revolving firework.

Stanch :: Stanch (v. t.) To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst..

Backlog :: Backlog (n.) A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth..

Worm :: Worm (v. t.) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b)..

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..

Halfcock :: Halfcock (v. t.) To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch.

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