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Word Meanings - TOUCH-PAPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.

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  • FIREFLY
    Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridæ. Note: The common American species belong to the genera Photinus and Photuris, in which both sexes are winged. The name is also applied to luminous species of Elateridæ.
  • FIRST
    Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
  • FIREARM
    A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
  • STEEP
    Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
  • FIREDRAKE
    1. A fiery dragon. Beau. & Fl. 2. A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket. 3. A worker at a furnace or fire. B. Jonson.
  • FIRMAN
    In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance.
  • FIRE-FANGED
    Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.
  • FIREWORM
    The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm.
  • MATCHMAKER
    1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
  • STEEPLE
    A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles
  • STEEPLY
    In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
  • STEEP-DOWN
    Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • SALTPETER; SALTPETRE
    Potassium nitrate; niter, a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the
  • FIRMLESS
    1. Detached from substance. Does passion still the firmless mind control Pope. 2. Infirm; unstable. "Firmless sands." Sylvester.
  • FIREBRAND
    1. A piece of burning wood. L'Estrange. 2. One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary. Bacon.
  • FIREBARE
    A beacon. Burrill.
  • SLOWLY
    In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.
  • FIRMITY
    Strength; firmness; stability. Chillingworth.
  • FIREWORK
    A pyrotechnic exhibition. Night before last, the Duke of Richmond gave a firework. Walpole. (more info) 1. A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that
  • AFFIRMATIVELY
    In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
  • UNFIRM
    Infirm. Dryden.
  • SPITFIRE
    A violent, irascible, or passionate person. Grose.
  • ZULU-KAFFIR
    A member of the Bantu race comprising the Zulus and the Kaffirs.
  • ENFIRE
    To set on fire. Spenser.
  • BALEFIRE
    A signal fire; an alarm fire. Sweet Teviot! on thy silver tide The glaring balefires blaze no more. Sir W. Scott. (more info) Icel. bal, OSlav. b, white, Gr. bright, white, Skr. bhala brightness)
  • CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
    Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
  • MISMATCH
    To match unsuitably.

 

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