Anthony's Fire () See Saint Anthony's Fire, under Saint. |
Ash-fire (n.) A low fire used in chemical operations. |
Bessemer steel () Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal |
Cast steel () See Cast steel, under Steel. |
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. |
Fire (v. t.) To cauterize. |
Fire (v. i.) To take fire |
Fire (v. i.) To be irritated or inflamed with passion. |
Fire (v. i.) To discharge artillery or firearms |
Fire beetle () A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America |
Fire-fanged (a.) Injured as by fire |
Fire-new (a.) Fresh from the forge |
Fire-set (n.) A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker. |
Knobbling fire () A bloomery fire. See Bloomery. |
Steel (n.) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon. |
Steel (n.) An instrument or implement made of steel |
Steel (n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc. |
Steel (n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives. |
Steel (n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint. |
Steel (n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness |
Steel (n.) A chalybeate medicine. |
Steel (n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel |
Steel (n.) To make hard or strong |
Steel (n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities. |
Steel (n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel. |