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Fire
King James Dictionary
or FIRE, n. The radical sense of fire is usually, to rush, to rage, to be violently agitated and if this is the sense of fire, in coincides with L. furo. It may be from shining or consuming.
1. Heat and light emanating visibly, perceptibly and simultaneously from any body caloric the unknown cause of the sensation of heat and of the retrocession of the homogeneous particles of bodies from one another, producing expansion, and thus enlarging all their dimensions one of the causes of magnetism, as evinced by Dr. Hare's calorimotor.
In the popular acceptation of the word, fire is the effect of combustion. The combustible body ignited or heated to redness we call fire and when ascending in a stream or body, we call it flame. A piece of charcoal in combustion, is of a red color and very hot. In this state it is said to be on fire, or to contain fire. When combustion ceases, it loses its redness and extreme heat, and we say, the fire is extinct.
2. The burning of fuel on a hearth, or in any other place. We kindle a fire in the morning, and at night we rake up the fire. Anthracite will maintain fire during the night.
3. The burning of a house or town a conflagration. Newburyport and Savannah have suffered immense losses by fire. The great fire in Boston in 1711 consumed a large part of the town.
4. Light luster splendor.
Stars, hide your fires!
5. Torture by burning.
6. The instrument of punishment or the punishment of the impenitent in another state.
Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Isaiah 33 .
7. That which inflames or irritates the passions.
What fire is in my ears?
8. Ardor of temper violence of passion.
He had fire in his temper.
9. Liveliness of imagination vigor of fancy intellectual activity animation force of sentiment or expression.
And warm the critic with a poet's fire.
10. The passion of love ardent affection.
The God of love retires dim are his torches, and extinct his fires.
11. Ardor heat as the fire of zeal or of love.
12. Combustion tumult rage contention.
13. Trouble affliction.
When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burnt. Isaiah 43 .
To set on fire, to kindle to inflame to excite violent action.
St. Anthony's fire, a disease marked by an eruption on the skin, or a diffused inflammation, with fever the Erysipelas.
Wild fire, an artificial or factitious fire, which burns even under water. it is made by a composition of sulphur, naphtha, pitch, gum and bitumen. It is called also Greek fire.
FIRE,
1. To set on fire to kindle as, to fire a house or chimney to fire a pile.
2. To inflame to irritate the passions as, to fire with anger or revenge.
3. To animate to give life or spirit as, to fire the genius.
4. To drive by fire. Little used.
5. To cause to explode to discharge as, to fire a musket or cannon.
6. To cauterize a term in farriery.
FIRE,
1. To take fire to be kindled.
2. To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
3. To discharge artillery or firearms. They fired on the town.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Fire'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/f/fire.html.
