Fir"ing , n.
1. The act
of discharging firearms.
2. The mode of introducing fuel into the
furnace and working it. Knight.
3. The application of fire, or of a cautery. Dunglison.
4. The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to
intense heat in a kiln.
5. Fuel; firewood or coal. [Obs.]
Mortimer.
Firing iron, an instrument used in
cauterizing.
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