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Incendiary shell

Incendiary \In*cen"di*a*ry\, a. [L. incendiarius, fr. incendium a fire, conflagration: cf. F. incendiaire. See Incense to inflame.]

  1. Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime.

  2. Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious.
    --Paley.

    Incendiary device, a device designed to set a structure on fire; a firebomb.

    Incendiary shell, a bombshell. See Carcass, 4.

Usage examples of "incendiary shell".

I had to leave my own cellar in a said hurry when an incendiary shell burst in front of my look-out and we were in danger of suffocation.

How the locomotive survived that fusillade I shall never know, but survive it did, with part of the roof and a funnel shot away and its tender of wood blazing from the effects of a direct hit by an incendiary shell.