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Fire-fanged   Listen
adjective
Fire-fanged  adj.  Injured as by fire; burned; said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fire-fanged" Quotes from Famous Books



... out before a good deal of manure has accumulated in them, say a few weeks', or a few months', or a winter's gathering, and it is commonly pretty well moistened by the urine. If this manure has not become too dry and "fire-fanged" in the cellar it is splendid for mushrooms. We buy a good deal of it, but are particular to reject the very dry and white-burned parts. Sometimes the manure from the cow-stables, as well as from the horse-stables, is dropped together ...
— Mushrooms: how to grow them - a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure • William Falconer



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