earth-flax, mountain-flax; asbestos; fireman, fire fighter, fire eater, fire department, fire brigade, engine company; pumper, fire truck, hook and ladder, aerial ladder, bucket; fire hose, fire hydrant.
     [forest fires] backfire, firebreak, trench; aerial water bombardment.
     wet blanket; fire extinguisher, soda and acid extinguisher, dry
chemical extinguisher, CO-two extinguisher, carbon tetrachloride, foam; sprinklers, automatic sprinkler system; fire bucket, sand bucket.
     [warning of fire] fire alarm, evacuation alarm,
     [laws to prevent fire] fire code, fire regulations, fire; fire
inspector; code violation, citation. 
     V. go out, die out, burn out; fizzle.
     extinguish; damp, slack, quench, smother; put out, stamp out; douse,
snuff, snuff out, blow out.
     fireproof, flameproof. 
     Adj. incombustible; nonflammable, uninflammable,
unflammable[obs3]; fireproof. 
     Phr. fight fire with fire

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     #389.  Thermometer. —­ N. thermometer, thermometrograph[obs3], mercury
thermometer, alcohol thermometer, clinical thermometer, dry-bulb thermometer, wet-bulb thermometer, Anschutz thermometer[Ger], gas thermometer, telethermometer; color-changing temperature indicator; thermopile, thermoscope[obs3]; pyrometer, calorimeter, bomb calorimeter; thermistor, thermocouple.
     [temperature-control devices] thermostat, thermoregulator.

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     #390.  Taste. —­ N. taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor; gout, relish;
sapor|, sapidity[obs3]; twang, smack, smatch| [obs3]; aftertaste, tang.
     tasting; degustation, gustation.
     palate, tongue, tooth, stomach. 
     V. taste, savor, smatch[obs3], smack, flavor, twang; tickle the palate
&c. (savory) 394; smack the lips. 
     Adj. sapid, saporific[obs3]; gustable|, gustatory; gustful[obs3];
strong, gamy; palatable &c. 394.

     #391.  Insipidity. —­ N. insipidity, blandness; tastelessness &c. adj. 
     V. be tasteless &c. adj. 
     Adj. bland, void of taste &c. 390; insipid; tasteless, gustless|,
savorless; ingustible|, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade, wishy-washy, mild; untasted[obs3].

     #392.  Pungency. —­ N. pungency, piquance, piquancy, poignancy haut-
gout, strong taste, twang, race.
     sharpness &c. adj.; acrimony; roughness &c. (sour) 392; unsavoriness
&c. 395.
     mustard, cayenne, caviare; seasoning &c. (condiment) 393; niter,
saltpeter, brine (saltiness) 392a; carbonate of ammonia; sal ammoniac[obs3], sal volatile, smelling salts; hartshorn (acridity) 401a.
     dram, cordial, nip.
     nicotine, tobacco, snuff, quid, smoke; segar[obs3]; cigar, cigarette;
weed; fragrant weed, Indian weed; Cavendish, fid[obs3], negro head, old soldier, rappee[obs3], stogy[obs3]. 
     V. be pungent &c. adj.; bite the tongue.