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Fuel

Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

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biomass 76% connected

The total mass of organisms in a given area or volume

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Butane 76% connected

An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.

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Charcoal 76% connected

Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It…

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Coke 76% connected

Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas work…

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Combustible 76% connected

Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable.

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Fire 76% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Firewood 76% connected

Wood for fuel.

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Gas 76% connected

An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as…

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Gasolene 76% connected

See Gasoline.

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Gasoline 76% connected

A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air ga…

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Ignitor 76% connected

One who, or that which, produces ignition; especially, a contrivance for igniting the powder in a torpedo or the like.

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Illuminant 76% connected

That which illuminates or affords light; as, gas and petroleum are illuminants.

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Kerosene 76% connected

An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence called also coal oil…

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Lighter 76% connected

One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.

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Petrol 76% connected

Petroleum.

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Propane 76% connected

A heavy gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H8, of the paraffin series, occurring naturally dissolved in crude petroleum, and also made artificially; -- called al…

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Water gas 76% connected

See under Gas.

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Manner of action 1

Bunker 76% connected

A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.

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Excite 76% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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Furnish 76% connected

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

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Offer 76% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Shake 76% connected

obs. p. p. of Shake.

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Stir 76% connected

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

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Substance 76% connected

That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Fire 74% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Fire 74% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Fueling 74% connected

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Fueling 74% connected

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Synonym 1

Fire 92% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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