These he ignites in the pan, and as the bright flame leaps up, he watches carefully for the gleam from the eyes of the deer amongst the dark shadows of the forest.
The dry fronds give off in burning sufficient heat to make the whole crown of the tree inflammable; this, in turn, ignites the trunk, which burns for some time, and gives a most brilliant light.
The potassium at once ignites the liberated oxygen, and the conflagration of this mighty globe is begun.
As one approaches nearer to the country of the Cats, one finds heavy and thick water, which ignites like brandy, and boils up in bubbles of flame when fire is applied to it.
The Arabs collect the silk, and twist it into matches for their fire-locks, preferring it to the common match, because it ignites more readily.
When blown through the tube, the saliva comes in contact with the potassium, which ignites and sets fire to the paper.
The paper ignites and disappears in a sheet of flame, and the plate is found empty.
When he is pursued and he finds himself in danger of being overtaken, the Teuton aviator ignites these missiles and throws them overboard.
When they strike the objective the bursting charge breaks up the shell, releasing the contents, and simultaneouslyignites the combustible.
The bamboo is very hard with a glazed surface; the sharp edge of the china pares off a thin strip of the glaze, and the friction of the blow ignites it.
A long spark follows and ignites the tinder which is readily blown into the blaze.
Now, if the mixture be compressed it becomes hotter and hotter, until a point is reached at which it ignites spontaneously.
We hold it up facing the sun to concentrate all the heat rays that fall upon it into one intensely brilliant spot, which speedily ignites any inflammable substance on which it may fall (Fig.
Percussion match, a match which ignites by percussion.
Defn: An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock.
A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on stricking the steel ignites the priming.
As the contact between these two pieces is broken, a spark is formed that ignites the gas escaping from the burner at B.
The fire test of an oil is the lowest temperature at which the oil itself ignites from its vapors and continues to burn when a test flame is quickly approached near its surface and quickly removed.
On an electric current passing, the bridge is heated to incandescence and ignites the priming composition.
The fuze on striking ignites the exploder and in turn the lyddite.
On the gun being fired the detonator is exploded and its flash ignites the upper time ring.
By this the pellet strikes the detonator and so ignites a length of slow-burning composition which is pressed into a wood tube or into a channel formed in a metal ring.
What guerdon must be paid, what thanks offered, to him who lacks the prize of courage?
These things commonly go with feebleness, these are the wages of the defeated, for whom naught remains but utter infamy.
The lighter is held over the stove, the gas turned on and the friction produced by rubbing one part of the lighter across the other, making a spark which ignites the gas.
Sometimes the gas ignitesat the point where the air is mixed with it.
Burning back means that the gas ignites at the opening where it should be mixing with the air instead of at the tip of the burner.
When turned on the gas readily ignitesand the resulting fire produces great heat.
This automatically ignites the fuse which bursts the grenade in from 4 to 5 seconds.
Mixtures that are rich in gasoline ignite quicker than those which have more air, but these are only suitable when starting or when running slowly, as a rich mixture ignites much quicker than a weak mixture.
The method of igniting the gas is very similar, as the spark ignites the circle of gas immediately adjacent to the sparking point, and this circle in turn ignites a little larger one concentric with it.
This ignites easily and the engine starts off sooner than would otherwise be the case.
Phosphorous will ignite when held in a warm hand, but it does not then produce spontaneous combustion, because it ignites through the agency of applied heat.
It has been positively demonstrated by the invention of a small condensing syringe, by which, through the rapid compression of a small volume of air, a spark is emitted which ignites a piece of prepared tinder.
The heat which would pass from particle to particle of the dense substance of iron, and be conducted away, accumulates in the interspaces of paper, and ignites it.
Because the hydrogen of the tallow, having a stronger affinity for the oxygen of the air than carbon has, ignites first.
An assistant ignites the spirit-lamp, into the flame of which I plunge the pliers, thereby destroying all attached germs or organisms.
The Gramme machine, for example, which ignites the Jablochkoff candles on the Thames Embankment and at the Holborn Viaduct, delivers four currents, each passing through its own circuit.
The vapour from the mixture ignites and we have a monochromatic flame.
The current heats the platinum, which ignites a small charge of powder or fulminate, if it be a common electric, in the primer, which ignites the main charge.
Its action consists in the friction of a saw-tooth wire being pulled through a portion of mercuric fulminate, which explodes and ignites a small charge of powder in the primer, which in turn ignites the main charge in the gun.
The spark generated ignites the cotton, and is carefully nursed into flame in dead and dry grass.
He then places the pieces of jack-wood on the altar, and ignites it with fire brought from the hearth of the bride's illam.
As there is an interval of time after the spark is made until it ignites the charge, it is very evident that the movement of the machinery continues and the moment of ignition should take place when the compression is greatest.
F; this ignites the mixture of gas and air (which is at a pressure of about 80 lb.
Because it again liberates the hydrogen of the tallow, and ignites it.
As the lever brings the attached wire A, in contact with the wire B, a bright spark passes, which ignites the gas, the burner being joined with a battery and induction or spark coil.
The heat generated by resistance in the fuse ignites the powder or other explosive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ignites" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
