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Firework

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 s

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Catherine wheel 76% connected

Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window.

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Cracker 76% connected

One who, or that which, cracks.

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Firecracker 76% connected

See Cracker., n., 3.

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Fizgig 76% connected

A fishgig.

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Maroon 76% connected

In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.

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Rocket 76% connected

A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.

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Serpent 76% connected

Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia.

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Skyrocket 76% connected

A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks.

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Sparkler 76% connected

One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.

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Squib 76% connected

A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there w…

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Torpedo 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving…

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Pyrotechnic 92% connected

Alt. of Pyrotechnical

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Anorthoscope noun · 78% connection

An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painte…

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Blaze noun · 78% connection

A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.

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Blower noun · 78% connection

A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A…

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Burn verb · 78% connection

To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some pr…

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Burning noun · 78% connection

The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.

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Burnt p. p. & a. · 78% connection

Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.

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Collision noun · 78% connection

The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

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Combustion noun · 78% connection

The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat.

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Dark adjective · 78% connection

Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep…

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Deflagrator noun · 78% connection

A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.

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Display adapter noun · 78% connection

(computer science) an electronic device that converts information in memory to video output to a display

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Display adaptor noun · 78% connection

(computer science) an electronic device that converts information in memory to video output to a display

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Figurant n. masc. · 78% connection

One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but…

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Fire noun · 78% connection

the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first d…

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Flame noun · 78% connection

the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first d…

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Flaming noun · 78% connection

the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first d…

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Fluorescence noun · 78% connection

That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color fr…

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Graphics driver noun · 78% connection

A series of instructions that activates a graphics device, such as a display screen or plotter.

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