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Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement. Artificial fuel, fuel consisting of small particles, as coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or blocks.

One who, or that which, supplies fuel. [R.] [Written also fueller.] Donne.

Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. [Obs.] Bacon.

A thick liquid residuum obtained in the distillation of Russian petroleum, much used as fuel.

burn only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel.

A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed.

rnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.

A block of compacted coal dust, or peat, etc., for fuel.

beetle. See under Carpet. -- Buffalo chips, dry dung of the buffalo, or bison, used for fuel. [U.S.] -- Buffalo clover (Bot.), a kind of clover (Trifolium reflexum and T.soloniferum) found in the ancient grazing grounds of the American bison. -- Buffalo cod (Zoöl.), a large, edible, marine fish (Ophiodon elongatus)…

The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace. Raymond.

roach near to a concealed object which is sought. [Colloq.] To burn out, to burn till the fuel is exhausted. -- To burn up, To burn down, to be entirely consumed.

ure of sugar. -- Cane trash, the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for fuel, etc.

Dried dung of cattle used as fuel. [Prov. Eng.] Waterland.

made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.

That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time

Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel. Johnson.

h black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.

e and burn. All such combustibles as are cheap enough for common use go under the name of fuel. Ure.

y in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor. England contributes much more than any other of the allies. Addison.

A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse. The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. Locke.