Alight (v. i.) To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage |
Alight (v. i.) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop |
Alight (v. i.) To come or chance (upon). |
Alight (a.) Lighted |
Anthony's Fire () See Saint Anthony's Fire, under Saint. |
Ash-fire (n.) A low fire used in chemical operations. |
Catch (v. t.) To lay hold on |
Catch (v. t.) To seize after pursuing |
Catch (v. t.) To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook |
Catch (v. t.) Hence: To insnare |
Catch (v. t.) To seize with the senses or the mind |
Catch (v. t.) To communicate to |
Catch (v. t.) To engage and attach |
Catch (v. t.) To get possession of |
Catch (v. t.) To take or receive |
Catch (v. t.) To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise |
Catch (v. t.) To reach in time |
Catch (v. i.) To attain possession. |
Catch (v. i.) To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction |
Catch (v. i.) To take hold |
Catch (v. i.) To spread by, or as by, infecting |
Catch (n.) Act of seizing |
Catch (n.) That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened |
Catch (n.) The posture of seizing |
Catch (n.) That which is caught or taken |
Catch (n.) Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony. |
Catch (n.) Passing opportunities seized |
Catch (n.) A slight remembrance |
Catch (n.) A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words. |
Catch-basin (n.) A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer. |
Catch-meadow (n.) A meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill. |
Cony-catch (v. t.) To deceive |
Elmo's fire () See Corposant |
Fire (n.) The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies |
Fire (n.) Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace. |
Fire (n.) The burning of a house or town |
Fire (n.) Anything which destroys or affects like fire. |
Fire (n.) Ardor of passion, whether love or hate |
Fire (n.) Liveliness of imagination or fancy |
Fire (n.) Splendor |
Fire (n.) Torture by burning |
Fire (n.) The discharge of firearms |
Fire (v. t.) To set on fire |
Fire (v. t.) To subject to intense heat |
Fire (v. t.) To inflame |
Fire (v. t.) To animate |
Fire (v. t.) To feed or serve the fire of |
Fire (v. t.) To light up as if by fire |
Fire (v. t.) To cause to explode |
Fire (v. t.) To drive by fire. |
apprehension arrest catch collar pinch taking into custody | the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal), the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar |
fire control | preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target |
enfilade enfilade fire | gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation |
catch grab snatch snap | the act of catching an object with the hands, Mays made the catch with his back to the plate, he made a grab for the ball before it landed, Martin's snatch at the bridle failed and the horse raced away, the infielder's snap and throw was a single motion |
fair catch | (American football) a catch of a punt on the fly by a defensive player who has signalled that he will not run and so should not be tackled |
shoestring catch | (baseball) a running catch made near the ground |
catch | a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth, he played catch with his son in the backyard |
fire watching | (during World War II in Britain) watching for fires started by bombs that dropped from the sky |
fire drill | an exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of fire |
reconnaissance by fire | a method of reconnaissance in which fire is placed on a suspected enemy position in order to cause the enemy to disclose his presence by moving or returning fire |
fire firing | the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy, hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes, they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire |
antiaircraft fire | firing at enemy aircraft |
barrage barrage fire battery bombardment shelling | the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target, they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops, the shelling went on for hours without pausing |
call fire | fire delivered on a specific target in response to a request from the supported unit |
close supporting fire | fire on enemy troops or weapons or positions that are near the supported unit and are the most immediate and serious threat to it |
cover covering fire | fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations, artillery provided covering fire for the withdrawal |
deep supporting fire | fire on objectives not in the immediate vicinity of your forces but with the objective of destroying enemy reserves and weapons and interfering with the enemy command and supply and communications |
direct supporting fire | fire delivered in support of part of a force (as opposed to general supporting fire delivered in support of the force as a whole) |
concentrated fire massed fire | fire from two or more weapons directed at a single target or area (as fire by batteries of two or more warships) |
counterbattery fire | fire delivered to neutralize or destroy indirect fire weapon systems |
countermortar fire | mortar fire intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons |
counterpreparation fire | intensive prearranged fire delivered when the immanence of enemy attack is discovered |
destruction fire | fire delivered for the sole purpose of destroying material objects |
direct fire | fire delivered on a target that is visible to the person aiming it |
distributed fire | fire dispersed so as to engage effectively an area target |
friendly fire fratricide | fire that injures or kills an ally |
hostile fire | fire that injures or kills an enemy |
grazing fire | fire approximately parallel to the ground, the center of the cone of fire does rise above meter from the ground |
harassing fire | fire designed to disturb the rest of enemy troops and to curtail movement and to lower enemy morale |
indirect fire | fire delivered on a target that is not itself used as the point of aim for the weapons |
interdiction fire | fire directed to an area to prevent the enemy from using that area |
neutralization fire | fire that is delivered in order to render the target ineffective or unusable |
observed fire | fire for which the point of impact (the burst) can be seen by an observer, fire can be adjusted on the basis of the observations |
preparation fire | fire delivered on a target in preparation for an assault |
radar fire | gunfire aimed a target that is being tracked by radar |
registration fire | fire delivered to obtain accurate data for subsequent effective engagement of targets |
scheduled fire | prearranged fire delivered at a predetermined time |
searching fire | fire distributed in depth by successive changes in the elevation of the gun |
supporting fire | fire delivered by supporting units to protect or assist a unit in combat |
suppressive fire | fire on or about a weapon system to degrade its performance below what is needed to fulfill its mission objectives |
unobserved fire | fire for which the point of impact (the bursts) cannot be observed |
artillery fire cannon fire | fire delivered by artillery |
high-angle fire | fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range |
mortar fire | artillery fire delivered by a mortar |
zone fire | artillery or mortar fire delivered in a constant direction at several quadrant elevations |
pyrolatry fire-worship | the worship of fire |
fire sale | a sale of merchandise supposedly damaged by fire |
fire sale | a sale of assets at very low prices typically when the seller faces bankruptcy |
European fire salamander Salamandra salamandra | a kind of European salamander |
spotted salamander fire salamander Salamandra maculosa | European salamander having dark skin with usually yellow spots |