rare. [f. prec.]
1. trans. To illuminate with bonfires.
1605. Rowlands, Hell’s broke Loose, 35. Boone-fier the streets; set Bells a worke to ring.
a. 1797. H. Walpole, in J. Doran, Hanover Queens. The streets were illuminated & bonfired.
2. intr. To make bonfires. Hence Bonfiring.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., VI. XV. xii. 96. That was the Old Dessauer’s bonfiring for the Victory of Sohr.
