Word Meanings - TOUCHPAPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.

• First-hand
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent.
• Matchmaker
  One who makes matches for burning or kinding.
• Steeper
  A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.
• FIRENEW
  Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new. Charles reade. Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. Shak.
• STEEPUP
  Lofty and precipitous. [R.] Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill. Shak.
• Firecrest
  A small European kinglet (Regulus ignicapillus), having a bright red crest; -- called also fire-crested wren.
• Fireprrofing
  The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process.
• Firmament
  Fixed foundation; established basis.
• Firmamental
  Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions.
• Firstling
  The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock.
• Matchmaking
  The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning.
• Steepiness
  Steepness.
• FIREPROOFING
  The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Firedog
  A support for wood in a fireplace; an andiron.
• Firmans
  of Firman
• Firstly
  In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
• Steepish
  Somewhat steep.

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