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- English Word Firewarden Definition An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.
- English Word Fireweed Definition An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned.
- English Word Fireweed Definition The great willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum).
- English Word Firewood Definition Wood for fuel.
- English Word Firework Definition 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 burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The name is also given to various combustible preparations used in war.
- English Word Firework Definition A pyrotechnic exhibition.
- English Word Fireworm Definition 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.
- English Word Firing Definition The act of disharging firearms.
- English Word Firing Definition The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.
- English Word Firing Definition The application of fire, or of a cautery.
- English Word Firing Definition The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.
- English Word Firing Definition Fuel; firewood or coal.
- English Word Firk Definition To beat; to strike; to chastise.
- English Word Firk Definition To fly out; to turn out; to go off.
- English Word Firk Definition A freak; trick; quirk.
- English Word Firkin Definition A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.
- English Word Firkin Definition A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc.
- English Word Firlot Definition A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000.
- English Word Firm Definition Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood.
- English Word Firm Definition Not easily excited or disturbed; unchanging in purpose; fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily changed in feelings or will; strong; as, a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent.
- English Word Firm Definition Solid; -- opposed to fluid; as, firm land.
- English Word Firm Definition Indicating firmness; as, a firm tread; a firm countenance.
- English Word Firm Definition The name, title, or style, under which a company transacts business; a partnership of two or more persons; a commercial house; as, the firm of Hope & Co.
- English Word Firm Definition To fix; to settle; to confirm; to establish.
- English Word Firm Definition To fix or direct with firmness.
- English Word Firmament Definition Fixed foundation; established basis.
- English Word Firmament Definition The region of the air; the sky or heavens.
- English Word Firmament Definition The orb of the fixed stars; the most rmote of the celestial spheres.
- English Word Firmamental Definition Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions.
- English Word Firman Definition 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.