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Needfire

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Fire obtained by friction. It has been supposed to defeat sorcery, and cure diseases assigned to witchcraft. (Danish, gnide, to rub.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Neck and Heels
Neck and Neck
Neck or Nothing
Necked
Necklace
Necromancy
Nectar
Neddy (a man’s name)
Need Makes the old Wife Trot
Needs must when the Devil Drives
Needfire
Needful (The)
Needham
Needle
Negative Pregnant (A)
Negro
Negro Offspring
Negroni
Negus
Nehallenia
Nehushtan (2 Kings xviii. 4)