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Vomiting fire. [R.]

e. Those tender babes Whom envy hath immured within your walls. Shak. This huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round. Milton.

ound. Impale him with your weapons round about. Shak. Impenetrable, impaled with circling fire. Milton.

Not capable of being borne; impassible. A spirit, and so impatible of material fire. Fuller.

pable of ebign relieved or assuaged; inextinguishable. [R.] O! how I burn with implacable fire. Spenser. Which wrought them pain Implacable, and many a dolorous groan. Milton.

The act or practice of maliciously setting fires; arson.

Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.

To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. [Obs.] Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense Thy glorious heap of funeral. Chapman.

Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes.

The act of kindling, or the state of being kindled or on fire. Bacon.

Serving to kindle or set on fire. [R.] Part incentive reed Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire. Milton.

To burn to ashes; to consume; to burn. Bacon. It is the fire only that incinerates bodies. Boyle.

Not combustible; not capable of being burned, decomposed, or consumed by fire; uninflammable; as, asbestus is an incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas. Incombustible cloth, a tissue of amianthus or asbestus; also, a fabric imbued with an incombustible substance. -- In`com*bus"ti*ble*ness, n.…

er's ideas into one's work. The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community. Addison.

rnate long and short faces, with salient and receding angles, each face giving a flanking fire along the front of the next.

usual way among Indians of traversing woods, especially when on the war path. -- Indian fire, a pyrotechnic composition of sulphur, niter, and realgar, burning with a brilliant white light. -- Indian grass (Bot.), a coarse, high grass (Chrysopogon nutans), common in the southern portions of the United States; wood g…

To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow. We should have made retreat By light of the inflamed fleet. Chapman.

Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.

Susceptibility of taking fire readily; the state or quality of being inflammable.

Capable of being easily set fire; easily enkindled; combustible; as, inflammable oils or spirits.