Hypertext Webster Gateway: "firework"

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

Firework \Fire"work`\, n.
1. A device for producing a striking display of light, or a
figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the
combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner,
as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various
salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or
pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A
number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to
make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire,
often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of
firework. The name is also given to various combustible
preparations used in war.

2. pl. A pyrotechnic exhibition. [Obs. in the sing.]

Night before last, the Duke of Richmond gave a
firework. --Walpole.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

firework
n : (usually plural) an explosive device that burns with colored
flames [syn: {pyrotechnics}]


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