Fire"-new` (?), a. Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new.
Charles reade.
Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current.
Shak.
Fire"place` (?), n. The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a
hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be
built.
Fire"proof` (?), a. Proof against fire; incombustible.
Fire"proof`ing (?), n. The act or process of rendering anything
incombustible; also, the materials used in the process.
Fir"er (?), n. One who fires or sets fire to anything; an incendiary.
[R.] R. Carew.
Fire"-set` (?), n. A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs,
shovel, and poker.
Fire"side` (?), n. A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life
or retirement.
Fire"stone` (?; 110), n. [AS. frstn flint; fr fire + stn stone.] 1.
Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.
2. 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. Ure.
Fire"tail` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The European redstart; -- called also
fireflirt. [prov. Eng.]
Fire"ward`en (?), n. 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.
Fire"weed` (?), n. (Bot.) (a) An American plant (Erechthites
hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been
burned. (b) The great willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum).
Fire"wood` (?), n. Wood for fuel.
Fire"work` (?), n. 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 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. [1913 Webster]