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An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.
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Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.
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The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls.
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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.
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The act or practice of maliciously setting fires; arson.
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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.
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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.
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A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.
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To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.
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A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.
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One who fires or sets fire to anything; an incendiary.
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A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.
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A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
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The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself.
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Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.
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A man who manages, or fires, cannon.
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Emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid; as, smoky fires.
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Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home.
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The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.
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A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
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