| 单词 | liquid fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasliquid fire liquid fire n. any very ‘fiery’ (in taste) or highly combustible liquid, now esp. one that can be sent as a burning jet in warfare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > fire, radiation, or chemical weapons > [noun] > fire as weapon fire?c1225 Greek fire?c1225 Greekish fire?c1225 wildfire1297 firework1528 liquid firea1616 dragoon1626 fire chemise1728 Grecian fire1774 chemise- the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > fire in a jet liquid firea1616 the world > food and drink > drink > types or qualities of beverage > [noun] > fiery drink liquid fire1815 a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 287 Whippe me you Diuells..Wash me in steepe downe gulphes of liquid fire. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 229 If it were Land that ever burn'd With solid, as the Lake with liquid fire . View more context for this quotation 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 579 It is in this way that the various kinds of cordial waters are prepared..: the term liquid-fire has not unaptly been given them. 1836 D. B. Edward Hist. Texas 81 Men are made pale by the dying struggles of liquid fire. 1838 E. Eden Let. 28 Nov. in Up the Country (1866) I. xxvi. 282 Runjeet produced some of his wine, a sort of liquid fire. 1862 Temple Bar July 512 Ordinary phosphorus is readily soluble in bisulphide of carbon: when thus in solution constituting the liquid denominated by Captains Disney and Norton ‘liquid fire’. 1871 Eng. Mech. 21 July 433/1 In 1869, the late J. Nicklès..discovered a composition for a liquid fire. 1915 Illustr. London News 13 Mar. 321 The enemy attacking a trench into which they had sent liquid fire. 1916 War Illustr. 19 Aug. 14/2 The Territorials went through a rain of liquid-fire shells mixed with gas shells. < as lemmas |
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