Indian fire

English

Noun

Indian fire (uncountable)

1. A pyrotechnic composition of sulfur, nitre, and realgar, burning with a brilliant white light.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Indian fire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)