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- Firework - n. - A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The name is also given to various combustible preparations used in war.
- Firework - n. - A pyrotechnic exhibition.
- Tourbillion - n. - An ornamental firework which turns round, when in the air, so as to form a scroll of fire.
- Light - n. - A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or colored flame; as, a Bengal light.
- Rocket - n. - An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.
- Water rocket - - A kind of firework to be discharged in the water.
- Serpent - n. - A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.
- Wheel - n. - A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases.
- Torpedo - n. - A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.