Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Fring"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

2. To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln;
as, to fire pottery.

3. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions; as, to fire the
soul with anger, pride, or revenge.

Love had fired my mind. --Dryden.

4. To animate; to give life or spirit to; as, to fire the
genius of a young man.

5. To feed or serve the fire of; as, to fire a boiler.

6. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.

[The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.
--Shak.

7. To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge;
as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls,
rockets, etc.

8. To drive by fire. [Obs.]

Till my bad angel fire my good one out. --Shak.

9. (Far.) To cauterize.

{To fire up}, to light up the fires of, as of an engine.

Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup