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To inflame; to excite. [Obs.] Marston.

The act or practice of maliciously setting fires; arson.

tes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter. Several cities . . . drove them out as incendiaries. Bentley.

Promoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory. [Obs.] Bacon. -- In*cen"di*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]

An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels. [Obs.] Animated by . . . John à Chamber, a very boutefeu, . . . they entered into open rebellion. Bacon.

A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat. The incendiary rafts prepared by Sir Sidney Smith for destroying the French flotilla at Boulogne, 1804, were called catamarans. Knight.

d body of men for extinguished fires. -- Fire bucket. See under Bucket. -- Fire bug, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac. [U.S.] -- Fire clay. See under Clay. -- Fire company, a company of men managing an engine in extinguishing fires. -- Fire cross…

One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary. Bacon.

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

One who makes use of petroleum for incendiary purposes.

, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.

An insane disposition to incendiarism.