Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fire-alarm.
- noun A house-burning; a confiagration. Compare
scathefire .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An alarm of fire.
- noun obsolete A fire causing alarm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An
alarm offire . - noun obsolete A fire causing alarm.
- noun A house-burning;
conflagration ;scathefire .
Etymologies
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From scare + fire. In some senses, alteration of scathefire.
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