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Firing
- verb - bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery"
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
- cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
- destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries"
- drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
- go off or discharge; "The gun fired"
- provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace"
- start firing a weapon
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position;
- the act of discharging a gun
- 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"
- the act of setting something on fire
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
Firkin
- noun - a British unit of capacity equal to 9 imperial gallons
- a small wooden keg
Firlot
- - A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000.
Firman
- - In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance.
Firmed
- verb - become taut or tauter; "Your muscles will firm when you exercise regularly"; "the rope tautened"
- make taut or tauter; "tauten a rope"
Firmer
- unknown - More emphatic, more resolute, stronger
- More firm
- not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
Firmly
- adverb - in a secure manner; in a manner free from danger; "she held the child securely"
- with firmness; "held hard to the railing"
- with resolute determination; "we firmly believed it"; "you must stand firm"
Firsts
- noun - an honours degree of the highest class
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- the first element in a countable series; "the first of the month"
- the first or highest in an ordering or series; "He wanted to be the first"
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
- the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"
Firths
- noun - a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)
- English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)
Fiscal
- adjective - involving financial matters; "fiscal responsibility"