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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Cf. F.

combustible

Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable.

Sin is to the soul like fire to

combustible

matter.

South.

Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.

Arnold was a

combustible

character.

W. Irving.

Noun.

A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn.

All such

combustibles

as are cheap enough for common use go under the name of fuel.

Ure.

Adj.

That will take fire and burn; capable of catching fire; thus, wood and coal are combustible bodies.

Noun.

A substance that will take fire and burn; a body which, in its rapid union with others, disengages heat and light.