ingle

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=gle

CIDE DICTIONARY

ingle, n. [Gael. & Ir. aingeali fire; cf. L. igniculusi spark, dim. of ignis fire. Cf. Ignite.].

 Flame; blaze; a fire; a fireplace.  Burns.  [1913 Webster]

Ingle nook, the chimney corner. -- Ingle side, Ingle cheek, the fireside.

ingle, n. [Written also engle, enghle: cf. Gael. & Ir. aingeal an angel. Cf. Engle.].

 A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart; an engle.  Toone.  [1913 Webster]

ingle, v. t. 

 To cajole or coax; to wheedle. See Engle.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

ingle

ancestral halls, backfire, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, blaze, bonfire, burning ghat, campfire, cheerful fire, chimney, chimney corner, combustion, conflagration, corposant, cozy fire, crackling fire, crematory, death fire, family homestead, fen fire, fender, fire, fire screen, fireboard, fireguard, fireplace, fireside, flame, flashing point, flicker, flickering flame, flue, forest fire, fox fire, foyer, funeral pyre, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, hob, home, home place, home roof, home sweet home, homestead, household, hub, ignis fatuus, ignition, inglenook, ingleside, lambent flame, marshfire, menage, open fire, paternal roof, prairie fire, pyre, raging fire, roof, rooftree, sea of flames, sheet of fire, signal beacon, smokehole, smudge fire, three-alarm fire, toft, two-alarm fire, watch fire, wildfire, witch fire

ROGET THESAURUS

ingle

Fuel

N fuel, firing, combustible, coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale, turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log, cinder, ingle, tinder, touchwood, sulphur, brimstone, incense, port-fire, fire-barrel, fireball, brand, amadou, bavin, blind coal, glance coal, German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge, solid fueled rocket, wax, paraffin wax, paraffin oil, lamp oil, whale oil, oil, petroleum, gasoline, high octane gasoline, nitromethane, petrol, gas, juice, gasohol, alcohol, ethanol, methanol, fuel oil, kerosene, jet fuel, heating oil, number 2 oil, number 4 oil, naphtha, rocket fuel, high specific impulse fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, lox, natural gas, synthetic gas, synthesis gas, propane, butane, hydrogen, brand, torch, fuse, wick, spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve, vesuvian, vesta, fusee, locofoco, linstock, candle, oil, carbonaceous, combustible, inflammable, high octane, high specific impulse, heat of combustion.