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  • English Word Firebird Definition The Baltimore oriole.
  • English Word Fireboard Definition A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use.
  • English Word Firebote Definition An allowance of fuel. See Bote.
  • English Word Firebrand Definition A piece of burning wood.
  • English Word Firebrand Definition One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary.
  • English Word Firecracker Definition See Cracker., n., 3.
  • English Word Firecrest Definition A small European kinglet (Regulus ignicapillus), having a bright red crest; -- called also fire-crested wren.
  • English Word Fired Definition of Fire
  • English Word Firedog Definition A support for wood in a fireplace; an andiron.
  • English Word Firedrake Definition A fiery dragon.
  • English Word Firedrake Definition A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket.
  • English Word Firedrake Definition A worker at a furnace or fire.
  • English Word Firefish Definition A singular marine fish of the genus Pterois, family Scorpaenidae, of several species, inhabiting the Indo-Pacific region. They are usually red, and have very large spinose pectoral and dorsal fins.
  • English Word Fireflaire Definition A European sting ray of the genus Trygon (T. pastinaca); -- called also fireflare and fiery flaw.
  • English Word Fireflame Definition The European band fish (Cepola rubescens).
  • English Word Fireflies Definition of Firefly
  • English Word Firefly Definition Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridae.
  • English Word Fireless Definition Destitute of fire.
  • English Word Firelock Definition An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock.
  • English Word Fireman Definition A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.
  • English Word Fireman Definition A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.
  • English Word Firemen Definition of Fireman
  • English Word Fireplace Definition The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.
  • English Word Fireproof Definition Proof against fire; incombustible.
  • English Word Fireprrofing Definition The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process.
  • English Word Firer Definition One who fires or sets fire to anything; an incendiary.
  • English Word Fireside Definition A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.
  • English Word Firestone Definition Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.
  • English Word Firestone Definition A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; -- especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces.
  • English Word Firetail Definition The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt.