incendiary device

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incendiary device - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Incendiary \In*cen"di*a*ry\, a. [L. incendiarius, fr. incendium
     a fire, conflagration: cf. F. incendiaire. See Incense to
     inflame.]
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     1. Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning
        of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as
        incendiary crime.
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     2. Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or
        quarrel; inflammatory; seditious. --Paley.
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     Incendiary device, a device designed to set a structure on
        fire; a firebomb.
  
     Incendiary shell, a bombshell. See Carcass, 4.
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