fire bavin

[Eng. fire, and bavin.] A bunch of brushwood, used in fireships, or for lighting fires generally; firewood. fire-bird, s. [Eng. fire, and bird.] Ornith.: The Baltimore oriole. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, fire blast fire-blăst, s. [Eng.fire, and blast.] Agric.: A disease in plants, especially in hops, and chiefly toward the later periods of their growth, in which the delicate parts of the plants are dried and shriveled up by a too sudden exposure to a brilliant and burning sun.