finochio

[Ital. finocchio.] Bot.: Sweet Fennel ( Fœniculum dulce ). fin-ös, s. [Sp.] Comm.: The second-best wool from merino sheep. *fint, pres. of v. [See def.] A contracted form fin-tock, s . [ Gael.fiundac .] The cloudberry or knout berry ( Rubus cham am or us ). for findeth. 1. Ord. Lang .: The same as FIR, A, 1 or 2. 2. Script.: [Heb. berosh .] Some tree belonging to the Coniferous order. It grew on Lebanon (Isaiah xxxvii. 24). Its wood was used with cedar in Solomon's Temple (1 Kings vi. 15, 34; 2 Chron. ii. 8, iii. 5), in shipbuilding (Ezekiel xxvii. 5), and for musical instruments (2 Sam. vi. 5). Gesenius thinks it was the cypre , but perhaps the Hebrew word berosh may have been used as vaguely as the English appellation fir . IMG:content-1657.png:[blocks in formation] marine; gō, põt, IMG:content-1658.png:[blocks in formation] fire-blasted, a. Struck with lightning. fire-boom, 8. Naut. A long boom having a goose neck, to slip on to a bolt in a ship's wales; the ends of fire- booms are formed with open prongs, through which a rope is reeved and carried round nd the ve el to pre- vent an enemy's boats from getting alongside dur- aking the night, or to keep off fire-ships, fire-stages, or ve els accidentally on fire. fire-company, s. 1. A fire-brigade. fire-cracker, s . A small paper cylinder charged with a preparation of gunpowder, and furnished with a short fuse, which, being lighted, explodes with a loud report. fire-cro , s . [FIRE CROSS.] in a room should itself be utilized to ring a bell and display a colored light. ( Haydn .) fire-dog, s . An andiron (q. v.). *fire-flinger, s. An incendiary. fire-flout, s . Bot . Papaver rhœas. ( Britten & Holland .) *fire-fork, s . A poker. IMG:content-1659.png:[blocks in formation] stoking are usually performed at the opening. fire-drake, 8. [FIREDRAKE.] fire-dre , s. An invention intended to be worn as a protection against fire, enabling the wearer to approach and even to pa through flames for the purpose of rescuing life, or saving property. It consists of a light armor of metallic gauze, having an inner covering of some material, such as cotton, ., which is a bad conductor of heat, steeped in a certain saline solution. fire-drill, s . especially the Austral i ans and Tasmanians, for producing fire. They take two pieces of soft dry wood; one is a stick of about eight or nine inches long, the other piece is flat; the stick they shape into an obtuse point at one end, and, pre ing it upon the other, cause it to revolve quickly between both hands. By this method fire is produced in le IMG:content-1660.png:[blocks in formation] fire-escape, s . An apparatus for enabling per- when on fire. sons to escape from the upper parts of buildings fire-extinguisher, s. [EXTINCT EUR, FIRE-ANNI- HILATOR.] 1. Laid hold of or caught by fire. 2. Cheese is said to be fire - fang it , when it is swelled and cracked, and has received a peculiar taste, in consequence of being exposed to too much heat before it has been dried. 3. Applied to manure it means impaired in value, or damaged by too high a degree of fermenting heat. Bot.: Caltha palustris . fire-opal, s . fire-ordeal, s. Old Law : An old way of trying an accused person by means of fire. [ORDEAL.] fire-pan, s . [FIREPAN.] Fire-philosophers, s . Hist.: Certain religionists, rather than philosophers, who in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries attempted by the aid of fire to penetrate to the primary elements of things. They attributed little to human reason and reflection, but nearly everything to experience and divine illumination. One of the most notable among them was Jacob Boehme, a shoemaker, of Gorlitz, whom his patrons called the German Theosophist. He lived in the seventeenth century. The others were also called Theosophists. They were opposed by the Peripatetics. (Mosheim.) [ROSICRUCIANS.] Fire-philosophy, s. The tenets of the Fire philosophers (q. v.).