scarefire

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[Scar-fire or scarefire.

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  1. A fire-alarm. From noise of scare-fires rest ye free, From murders, benedicitie. Herrick, The Bell-Man.
  2. A house-burning; a confiagration. Compare scathefire. Used foole-hardily to sallie forth and fight most courageously, but came home fewer than they went, doing no more good than one handfull of water, as men say, in a common skare-fire. Holland, tr. of Ammianus Marcellinus (1609). (Nares.) This general word [engine], communicable to all machines or instruments, use in this city hath confined to signifie that which is used to quench scare-fires. Fuller, Worthies, London, II. 334. Bells serve to proclaim a scare-fire. Holder.

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