noun

• (figuratively) Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.
  "And one thing I like in you, novv that you ſee / The bonefire of your Ladies ſtate burnt out, / You give it over, doe you not?"
• (obsolete) A fire lit to cremate a dead body; a funeral pyre.
  "The bodies which the plague had ſlaine were (O moſt wretched caſe) / Not caried forth to buriall now. For why ſuch ſtore there was / That ſcarce the gates were wyde inough for Coffins forth to paſſe. / So eyther lothly on the ground vnburied did they lie, / Or elſe without ſolemnitie were burnt in bonfires hie / No reuerence nor regard was had."

verb

• (transitive)
  "[L]ike the Christmas joke of snapdragons for children, the very liquor was to be bonfired also, and drank burning."
• (transitive)
  "The pots are formed by the coiling method and bonfired using palm fronds, grass and sometimes dung."
• (transitive)
  "They almost carried him [the king] into the palace on their shoulders; and at night the whole town was illuminated and bonfired."
• (intransitive, rare) To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.
  "[W]hen the news of the battle of Lissa came even to our remote quarter of Ireland, we considered it as a triumph for the cause of Protestantism, and illuminated, and bonfired, and had a sermon at church, and kept the Prussian king's birthday, on which my uncle would get drunk, as indeed on any other occasion."