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The European band fish (Cepola rubescens).

Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridæ.

Destitute of fire.

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.

A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.

The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.

Proof against fire; incombustible.

The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process.

One who fires or sets fire to anything; an incendiary. [R.] R. Carew.

Same as Stokehold, below.

A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.

Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.

The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt. [prov. Eng.]

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.

An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned.

Wood for fuel.

ce 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 mate…

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.

A French partisan soldier, or one belonging to a corps of detached light troops engaged in forays, skirmishes, scouting, etc.

French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vendémiaire.