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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FI'RING, ppr. Setting fire to; kindling; animating; exciting; inflaming; discharging firearms.
FI'RING, n.
1. The act of discharging firearms.
2. Fuel; firewood or coal.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire" [syn: fire, firing]
2: the act of discharging a gun [syn: discharge, firing, firing off]
3: the act of setting something on fire [syn: ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation]
4: the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. the act or process of one that fires 2. the process of maturing ceramic products by the application of heat

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the discharging of guns. 2 material for a fire, fuel. 3 the heating process which hardens clay into pottery etc. Phrases and idioms: firing-line 1 the front line in a battle. 2 the leading part in an activity etc. firing-party a group detailed to fire the salute at a military funeral. firing-squad 1 a group detailed to shoot a condemned person. 2 a firing-party. firing-step a step on which soldiers in a trench stand to fire.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Firing Fir"ing, n. 1. The act of disharging firearms. 2. The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it. --Knight. 3. The application of fire, or of a cautery. --Dunglison. 4. The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln. 5. Fuel; firewood or coal. [Obs.] --Mortimer. Firing iron, an instrument used in cauterizing.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see fire II

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Kindling, setting on fire. 2. Discharge (of guns), firing off. 3. Fuel, something to burn. 4. Cautery.

Moby Thesaurus

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