Fire (n.) Ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth; consuming violence of temper.
Fire (n.) Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal.
Fire (n.) Splendor; brilliancy; luster; hence, a star.
Fire (n.) Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.
Fire (n.) The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were exposed to a heavy fire.
Fired (imp. & p. p.) of Fire
Fring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fire
Fire (v. t.) To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.
Fire (v. t.) To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery.
Fire (v. t.) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions; as, to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge.
Fire (v. t.) To animate; to give life or spirit to; as, to fire the genius of a young man.
Fire (v. t.) To feed or serve the fire of; as, to fire a boiler.
Fire (v. t.) To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
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.
Fire (v. t.) To drive by fire.
Fire (v. t.) To cauterize.
Fire (v. i.) To take fire; to be kindled; to kindle.
Fire (v. i.) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
Fire (v. i.) To discharge artillery or firearms; as, they fired on the town.
Firearm (n.) A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
Fireback (n.) One of several species of pheasants of the genus Euplocamus, having the lower back a bright, fiery red. They inhabit Southern Asia and the East Indies.
Fireball (n.) A ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion; also, to set fire to their works and light them up, so that movements may be seen.
Fireball (n.) A luminous meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes exploding.
Firebare (n.) A beacon.
Fire beetle () A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly.
Firebird (n.) The Baltimore oriole.
Fireboard (n.) A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use.
Firebote (n.) An allowance of fuel. See Bote.
Firebrand (n.) A piece of burning wood.
Firebrand (n.) One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary.
Firecracker (n.) See Cracker., n., 3.
Firecrest (n.) A small European kinglet (Regulus ignicapillus), having a bright red crest; -- called also fire-crested wren.
Firedog (n.) A support for wood in a fireplace; an andiron.
Firedrake (n.) A fiery dragon.
Firedrake (n.) A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket.
Firedrake (n.) A worker at a furnace or fire.
Fire-fanged (a.) Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.
Firefish (n.) A singular marine fish of the genus Pterois, family Scorpaenidae, of several species, inhabiting the Indo-Pacific region. They are usually red, and have very large spinose pectoral and dorsal fins.
Fireflaire (n.) A European sting ray of the genus Trygon (T. pastinaca); -- called also fireflare and fiery flaw.
Fireflame (n.) The European band fish (Cepola rubescens).
Fireflies (pl. ) of Firefly
Firefly (n.) Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridae.
Fireless (a.) Destitute of fire.
Firelock (n.) An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock.
Firemen (pl. ) of Fireman
Fireman (n.) A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.
Fireman (n.) A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.
Fire-new (a.) Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new.
Fireplace (n.) The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.
Fireproof (a.) Proof against fire; incombustible.
Fireprrofing (n.) The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process.
Firer (n.) One who fires or sets fire to anything; an incendiary.
Fire-set (n.) A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker.
Fireside (n.) A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.
Firestone (n.) Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.
Firestone (n.) A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; -- especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces.
Firetail (n.) The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt.
Firewarden (n.) An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.
Fireweed (n.) An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned.
Fireweed (n.) The great willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum).
Firewood (n.) Wood for fuel.
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 skyrocket is a common form of firework. The name is also given to various combustible preparations used in war.
Firework (n.) A pyrotechnic exhibition.
Fireworm (n.) The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm.
Firing (n.) The act of disharging firearms.
Firing (n.) The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.
Firing (n.) The application of fire, or of a cautery.
Firing (n.) The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.
Firing (n.) Fuel; firewood or coal.
Firk (v. t.) To beat; to strike; to chastise.
Firk (v. i.) To fly out; to turn out; to go off.
Firk (n.) A freak; trick; quirk.
Firkin (n.) A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.
Firkin (n.) A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc.
Firlot (n.) A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000.
Firm (superl.) Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood.
Firm (superl.) Not easily excited or disturbed; unchanging in purpose; fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily changed in feelings or will; strong; as, a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent.
Firm (superl.) Solid; -- opposed to fluid; as, firm land.
Firm (superl.) Indicating firmness; as, a firm tread; a firm countenance.
Firm (a.) The name, title, or style, under which a company transacts business; a partnership of two or more persons; a commercial house; as, the firm of Hope & Co.
Firm (a.) To fix; to settle; to confirm; to establish.
Firm (a.) To fix or direct with firmness.
Firmament (v. & a.) Fixed foundation; established basis.
Firmament (v. & a.) The region of the air; the sky or heavens.
Firmament (v. & a.) The orb of the fixed stars; the most rmote of the celestial spheres.
Firmamental (a.) Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions.
Firmans (pl. ) of Firman
Firman (n.) In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance.
Firmer-chisel (n.) A chisel, thin in proportion to its width. It has a tang to enter the handle instead of a socket for receiving it.
Firmitude (n.) Strength; stability.
Firmity (n.) Strength; firmness; stability.
Firmless (a.) Detached from substance.
Firmless (a.) Infirm; unstable.
Firmly (adv.) In a firm manner.
Firmness (n.) The state or quality of being firm.
Firms (a.) The principal rafters of a roof, especially a pair of rafters taken together.
Firring (n.) See Furring.
Firry (a.) Made of fir; abounding in firs.
First (a.) Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.
First (a.) Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, all others.