congreve

noun congreve

• safety match — a match designed to ignite only when rubbed on a specially prepared surface.
• fusee — a wooden friction match having a large head, formerly used when a larger than normal flame was needed.
• locofoco — (sometimes lowercase) a member of the radical faction of the New York City Democrats, organized in 1835 to oppose the conservative members of the party.
• lucifer match — friction match.
• vesta — the ancient Roman goddess of the hearth, worshiped in a temple containing an altar on which a sacred fire was kept burning by the vestal virgins: identified with the Greek Hestia.