Word Meanings - LINSTOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.

• FIRTREE
  . See Fir.
• Firmity
  Strength; firmness; stability.
• LIGHTYEAR
  The distance over which light can travel in a year's time; -- used as a unit in expressing stellar distances. It is more than 63,000 times as great as the distance from the earth to the sun.
• Lighte
  imp. of Light, to alight.
• Light-horseman
  A soldier who serves in the light horse. See under 5th Light.
• Lightwood
  Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.
• Firearm
  A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
• Pointal
  The pistil of a plant.
• Fireflame
  The European band fish (Cepola rubescens).
• Staffish
  Stiff; harsh.
• 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.
• Fireweed
  An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned.
• FORKTAILED
  Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds. Fork-tailed flycatcher (Zoöl.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus). -- Fork-tailed gull (Zoöl.), a gull of the genus Xema, of two speci
• Firmless
  Detached from substance.
• MATCHCLOTH
  A coarse cloth.
• Forked
  of Fork
• Lighten
  To descend; to light.
• Lighthouses
  of Lighthouse
• Lighty
  Illuminated.

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