sions; as, to inflame anger, desire, etc.
To Blaze is to send forth a volume of flame.
To Smoulder is to burn with a smothered combustion, as when the air has not free access to the burning matter.
Flagro [flagratum], to burn with an accompaniment of flame. (L. )
Flagrant, blazing with violence. Used only in a fig. sense; as, a flagrant crime.
Note.—When we thus characterize a crime we imply that it is one which, by its blazing enormity, is calculated to attract general notice.
Conflagration, the burning of a large mass or extended collection of combustibles; as the burning of a forest or of a number of houses in a city. (Con, together.)
Deflagrate, to burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion. Nitre, when thrown on burning coals, will deflagrate.
Incendo [incensun], to set on fire. (L.) Hence,
To In'cense, odorous spices and gums burnt in religious worship.
To Incense', to inflame with anger.
Ardeo [arsum], to burn with great heat. (L.) Hence,
Ardent, burning; as, an ardent fever; an ardent zeal; an ardent desire.
Ardor, a high degree of heat; as, the ardor of the sun's rays. Fig., Great warmth of the commendable affections and passions; as, the ardor of love; to pursue one's studies with ardor.
Arson, the crime of house-burning.
To Set on Fire is to apply fire to any combustible mass or substance, and cause combustion to begin.
To Kindle is to cause combustion to begin and get under way by nursing the incipient flame.
Fuel is any substance that serves as an aliment (or food) for fire. (Fr., feu, fire.)
Tinder is scorched lint used to catch a spark in kindling.
Touchwood is decayed wood that will take fire from a spark produced by striking a piece of steel against a flint. (So called because the touch of a spark will ignite it.)
Punk is a kind of fungus used for tinder.
A Match is, 1. A small bit of pine wood with one end dipped in some chemical preparation that is easily ignited by friction. These are called friction matches. They have likewise been called lucifer matches. 2. A bit of tow, cotton, etc., dipped in sulphur and used in kindling. 3. A piece of hempen cord lighted at one end, and used in firing a cannon.
To Put Out is to cause combustion entirely to cease.
Extinguo [extinctum], to put out. (L.) Hence,
Extinguish, to put out; as, to extinguish a candle. Figuratively, we may speak of extinguishing life or hope.
Note.—When we speak of extinguishing life, we represent it under the figure of a lamp, a live coal, or a spark. Thus we say the lamp of life; or the vital spark.
Extinct, lit, extinguished. (Used chiefly in a fig. sense, as when we speak of life being extinct, or when we say that the mammoth belonged to a species of animals that is now extinct.)
Note.—When we say that a species of animals is extinct, we imply that the vital fire which had been transmitted from generation to generation is gone out, and that the species has ceased to exist.
2. The Products of Combustion.
Note.—Combustibles of a vegetable or animal origin consist chiefly of carbon (the matter of charcoal) and hydrogen, (one of the elements of water.) In combustion the carbon unites with the oxygen of the atmosphere, and forms a gas called carbonic acid, while the hydrogen unites with oxygen and forms water.
Smoke consists of imperfectly burned particles which pass off from burning matter in a visible form.
Note.—When the combustion of wood, oil, etc., is perfect, the mingled vapor and gas pass off in a transparent form, and are, consequently, invisible.
Soot consists of imperfectly burned particles of carbonaceous matter.
Lampblack is soot employed as a paint.
