Anthony's Fire
() See Saint Anthony's Fire, under Saint. |
Arson
(n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony |
Ash-fire
(n.) A low fire used in chemical operations. |
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. |
Fraud
(n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage |
Fraud
(n.) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another. |
Fraud
(n.) A trap or snare. |
Knobbling fire
() A bloomery fire. See Bloomery. |
Raising
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raise |
Raising
(n.) The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life. |
Raising
(n.) Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building |
Raising
(n.) The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning. |
Scheme
(n.) A combination of things connected and adjusted by design |
Scheme
(n.) A plan or theory something to be done |
Scheme
(n.) Any lineal or mathematical diagram |
Scheme
(n.) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event. |
Scheme
(v. t.) To make a scheme of |
Scheme
(v. i.) To form a scheme or schemes. |
| 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 |
arson
incendiarism
fireaising | malicious burning to destroy property, the British term for arson is fireaising |
fraud fraudulence
dupery
hoax
humbug
put-on | something intended to deceive, deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage |
| fraud | intentional deception resulting in injury to another person |
racket
fraudulent scheme
illegitimate enterprise | an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit |
| mail fraud | use of the mails to defraud someone |
| election fraud | misrepresentation or alteration of the true results of an election |
constructive fraud
legal fraud | comprises all acts or omissions or concealments involving breach of equitable or legal duty or trust or confidence |
extrinsic fraud
collateral fraud | fraud that prevents a party from knowing their rights or from having a fair opportunity of presenting them at trial |
fraud in fact
positive fraud | actual deceit, concealing something or making a false representation with an evil intent to cause injury to another |
| fraud in law | fraud that is presumed from the circumstances although the one who commits it need not have had any evil intent |
| fraud in the factum | fraud that arises from a disparity between the instrument intended to be executed and the instrument actually executed, e.g., leading someone to sign the wrong contract |
| fraud in the inducement | fraud which intentionally causes a person to execute and instrument or make an agreement or render a judgment, e.g., misleading someone about the true facts |
| intrinsic fraud | fraud (as by use of forged documents or false claims or perjury) that misleads a court or jury and induces a finding for the one perpetrating the fraud |
| 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 |