The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incendiary \In*cen"di*a*ry\, a. [L. incendiarius, fr. incendium a fire, conflagration: cf. F. incendiaire. See Incense to inflame.]
Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime.
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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.