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The craft of making fireworks
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pyrotechny
Word definitions for pyrotechny in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pyrotechny \Pyr`o*tech`ny\, n. [Cf. F. pyrotechnie.] The use and application of fire in science and the arts. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale. Same as Pyrotechnics .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the craft of making fireworks [syn: pyrotechnics ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The manufacture and use of fireworks. 2 The use of fire in chemistry and metallurgy. 3 (context obsolete English) The manufacture and use of gunpowder, bombs etc.
Usage examples of pyrotechny.
By the middle of the nineteenth century pyrotechny had reached a peak of technical perfection and was capable of transporting vast multitudes of spectators towards the visionary antipodes of minds which, consciously, were respectable Methodist, Puseyites, Utilitarians, disciples of Mill or Marx, of Newman, or Bradlaugh, or Samuel Smiles.
The Court knew, and every one else knew, that this was pure pyrotechny, and Mr.
Yankee, with the soaring imagination of that imaginative race, proposes to set fire to the Horseshoe Fall, and thus get up a grand nocturnal exhibition, to which the Surrey Zoological pyrotechny would bear the same ratio as a sky-rocket to Vesuvius.
Rufus stopping short and facing them with eyes that for the moment had established a natural pyrotechny of their own.