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Ignitor

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

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Device 76% connected

That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

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Fuel 76% connected

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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Fuse 76% connected

To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.

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Fusee 76% connected

A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.

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Fuze 76% connected

A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n.

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Kindling 76% connected

of Kindle

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Lucifer 76% connected

The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon.

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Match 76% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Primer 76% connected

One who, or that which, primes

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Priming 76% connected

of Prime

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Punk 76% connected

Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

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Spunk 76% connected

Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou.

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Tinder 76% connected

Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.

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Touchwood 76% connected

Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk.

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Ignite 74% connected

To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.

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Ignite 74% connected

To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.

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Light 74% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Light 74% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Synonym 2

Light 92% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Lighter 92% connected

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

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