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Combustible   Listen
noun
Combustible  n.  A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn. "All such combustibles as are cheap enough for common use go under the name of fuel."


adjective
Combustible  adj.  
1.
Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable. "Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter."
2.
Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible. "Arnold was a combustible character."





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"Combustible" Quotes from Famous Books



... impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious authour.' JOHNSON. 'Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in Prior that will excite to lewdness. If Lord Hailes thinks there is, he must be more combustible ...
— The Life Of Johnson, Volume 3 of 6 • Boswell
... when thousands of barrels of petroleum had been stored up in vats, and when the combustible fluid was spouting from the wells at the rate of many hundred barrels per day. Before the present deep wells were bored, oil was not produced in sufficient quantities to cause such a conflagration, and there was never seen upon the creek a stratum ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, Issue 2, February, 1864 • Various
... dead is going on at all hours of the day and night. Seven corpses were brought in and placed upon the pyres, built up of unsawed cord wood in cob style, raised to the height of four feet, the fire being applied to a small handful of specially combustible material at the bottom. The whole was so prepared as to ignite rapidly, and in a very few moments after the torch was applied to it, the pile was wreathed in the devouring element. The atmosphere was impregnated with offensive odors, and one was fain to get on the windward side ...
— Due West - or Round the World in Ten Months • Maturin Murray Ballou
... had rounded up all the firewood into one heap. Now, to this combustible material the fellow was bringing a side of bacon and a small bag of flour. These he dropped on the firewood, then went back for more ...
— The Young Engineers in Nevada • H. Irving Hancock
... E. Celebrated place of Hindu pilgrimage with a famous temple of the goddess Jawalamukhi, built over some jets of combustible gas. ...
— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie


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