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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Back·fire Back-fire, v. i.
 1. Engin. To have or experience a back fire or back fires; -- said of an internal-combustion engine.
 2.  Of a Bunsen or similar air-fed burner, to light so that the flame proceeds from the internal gas jet instead of from the external jet of mixed gas and air. -- Back-fir*ing, n.
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