fireworks

fireworks
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. pl. pyrotechnics; fire-crackers, sparklers, Roman candles, rockets, etc. See heat.
II
(Roget's IV) pl.n.
Syn. pyrotechnics, rockets, Roman candles, sparklers, Catherine wheels, pinwheels, skyrockets, girandoles, squibs, firecrackers, cherry bombs, illuminations, feux d'artifice (French).
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
pyrotechnics, incendiary devices, rockets, feux d'artifice.
WORD FIND
• arsenic sulfide used in: realgar
• child’s spark-maker: sparkler
• hisses and sputters: fizgig, squib
• pinwheellike: catherine wheel
• rotating display: girandole
• small rockets: bottle rockets
• spiral, rises in a: tourbillion
• star: star shell
• tube ejecting balls of fire: Roman candle

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