scarefire
English
Alternative forms
- skarefire
Etymology
From scare + fire. In some senses, alteration of scathefire.
Noun
scarefire (plural scarefires)
- (obsolete) A fire causing alarm, i.e. a house-burning; conflagration; scathefire.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
- Scarefire of Purgatory
References
- “scarefire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.