Word Meanings - FIREWARDEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.

• Callosities
  of Callosity
• Directness
  The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.
• Fireside
  A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.
• CALLISTHENICCALLISTHENICS
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Director
  One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.
• Firestone
  Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.
• Shallon
  An evergreen shrub (Gaultheria Shallon) of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry.
• DIRECTACTING
  Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts. Direct-acting steam engine, one in which motion is transmitted to the crank without the intervention of a beam or lever; -- also called direct-action steam engin
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Directorate
  The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
• Firewarden
  An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.
• Shalloon
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff.
• DIRECTACTION
  See Syndicalism, below.
• Against
  Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.

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