firepan (firpan)

[ brazier. A fire pan , such is used in barbers shops and others, in cold weather. Nomenclator. (b) A fire-pot; a grate. The place where fire is made, as a hearth moveable or a fire - panne , focus. Withals, Dict. (ed. 1608), p. 183. (c) A pan or crate used to carry fire in fire-hunting. (d) In the English version of the Bible, used to translate a Hebrew word elsewhere rendered "censer" and "snuff-dish." And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his flesh hooks, and his an insurance company engages, under certain specified conditions, to make good to the insured person such lo as may occur by fire to his property, described in the policy, within the period therein specified, and usually not exceeding a specified sum. fire-pot (fir'pot), n. 1. A ve el used in ancient warfare to contain combustible fluid, and dropped from the walls or thrown from a military engine. Compare fire - mace.-2. That part of a furnace in which the fire is made.3. A solderers' furnace.-4. A crucible. fire-proof (fir'pröf), a. Proof against fire; so constructed or protected as to be incombustible. Buildings are rendered fire-proof by the exclusive use in their construction of non-combustible materials, as stone brick, iron, cement, concrete, and asbestos. In the case of textile fabrics, as cotton and linen, the means adopted is saturation with various salts, borax, which leave their crystals in the substance of the fabric. Wood is best protected by silicate of soda, which on the application of strong heat fuses into a gla , and, not only enveloping the outside, but also filling the internal pores of the wood, shields it from contact with the oxygen of the air. All that can be done to protect combustible materials by any proce , however, is the prevention of conflagration; no proce yet known can prevent smoldering. fireproof (fir'pröf), v. t. [