Incendiary — Defs

01 n. Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.

pl. Incendiaries ((#))

1.
Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.
2.
A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter.
“Several cities . . . drove them out as incendiaries.” — Bentley.

02 a. Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime.

1.
Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime.
2.
Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious.

Phrases & compounds

Incendiary device — a device designed to set a structure on fire; a firebomb.

Incendiary shell — a bombshell. See Carcass, 4.