flame 
4. Heat or ardor of emotion or passion ; warmth 
of feeling; specifically, the passion of love; 
ardent love. 
Put in her tender heart the aspiring fame 
Of golden sovereignty. Shak., Rich. III., iv. 4. 
In vain I strove to check my m-mying Flam*; 
Or shelter Pulton under fttandihip s Nam. . 
1'riiii-, < Vila tu Damon. 
One great Genius often catches the Flame from another, 
and writes in his spirit. Add/son, Spectator, No. 339. 
Drink ye to her that each loves best, 
And if you nurse ajlattte 
That's told but to her mutual breast, 
\Ve will not ask her name. 
Campbell, Drink ye to her. 
5. Angry or hostile excitement; burning ani- 
mosity; contentious rage or strife. 
From breathing/fames against the Christians, none more 
ready than he [Paul] to undergo them for Christ. 
Stillingjleet, Sermons, I. iv. 
While the West was thus rising to confront the king, the 
North was all in a. flame behind him. 
Maccmlay, Hist. Eng., ix. 
6. An object of the passion of love: as, she 
was my first flame, [Colloq.] 
I suppose she was an old flame of the Colonel's, for their 
meeting was uncommonly ceremonious and tender. 
Thackeray, Newcomes, xxii. 
7. The gleam appearing at night from a school 
of herrings. [Eng.] 8. The geometrid moth, 
Anticlea ritbitlata: a collectors' name. [Eng.] 
The manometric flames of Konig. See manomtt- 
rie.= Syn. 1. Flame, Light, Flash, Blaze, Flare, Glare. 
Flame and light are generic words, while the others are 
specific. A flash is a flame or emitted light of very short 
continuance: as, the flash of gunpowder; the flash from a 
revolving light. A blaze is a quick, hot, bright, or com- 
paratively large flame. A ylare is a broad and especially 
a painfully bright light : as, the glare of a conflagration ; 
and hence a fierce look : as, the glare in the eyes of a wild 
beast. A. flare is a sudden or fitful glare. Flame especial- 
ly implies heat. See glared, v. i. 
flame (flam), v. ; pret. and pp. flamed, ppr. 
flaming. [Also dia\. flam, flamm, flamb ; < ME. 
flamben, flaumben, flawmcn, rarely flamen, 
flame, shine, glitter, < OF. flamber, flamer, F. 
flamber = U.fiammare = D. vlammen = MHG. 
vlammen, G. flammen = Sw. flamma = Dan. 
flamme, < L. flammare, flame, blaze, burn, tr. 
inflame, kindle, incite, < flamma, a flame. Of. 
inflame.] I. intrans. 1. To emit a flame; 
burst into flame ; blaze. 
Auster and Boreas, iusting furiously 
Vnder hot Cancer, make two clouds to clash, 
Whence th' aire at mid-night flames with lightning flash. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 1. 
The Ashes, which, falling upon some parched combus- 
tible Matter, began to fame and spread. 
Howell, Letters, I. iii. 21. 
The sun was burning hot, and, upon rubbing two sticks 
together, in half a minute they both took fire, and flamtil. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 171. 
2. To shine like flame ; glow with the brilliancy 
of flame ; flash. 
You do but flatter ; there is anger yet 
Flames in your eyes. 
Beau. aiulFl., Thierry and Theodoret, iii. 2. 
The crown 
And both the wings are made of gold, and flame 
At sunrise till the people in far fields . . . 
Behold it. Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
All the woods did flame 
With autumn. 
William Morns, Earthly Paradise, III. 67. 
3. To break out in violence of passion. 
Much was he moved at that rnefull sight ; 
And flam'd with zeale of vengeance inwardly. 
Spenser, F. Q., V. L 14. 
When a man stands . . . combustible and ready to flame 
upon every thing that touches him, life is as uneasy to him- 
self as it is to all about him. Steele, Spectator, No. 438. 
When he flouted a statesman's error, or flamed at a pub- 
lic wrong. Tennyson, The Wreck. 
To flame up, out, or forth, to burst into flame suddenly ; 
hence, to break out in a sudden passion, as in resenting 
an insult ; become violently excited, as any of the pas- 
sions ; manifest renewed vigor, as decaying or expiring 
vitality. 
II. trans. It. To burn, as with a flame ; singe; 
baste. See flamb, v. 2f. To inflame; hence, 
to excite. 
And since their courage is so nobly flam'd, 
This morning we'll behold the champions 
Within the list 
Shirley (and Fletcher 7), Coronation, ii. 
Our thoughts 
Are flamed with charity. 
Shirley, Grateful Servant, v. 2. 
3f. To cause to shine. 
Flambe doun the doleful light of thyn influence, 
Remembring thy seruants for thy magnificence. 
A Balade of our Latlie, 1. 65. 
4. In technical use, to subject to the action 
of fire or flame ; scorch ; singe. 
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The pipette is first thoroughly sterilized by flaming 
every portion of it. Dotlt'tj, itacteria Investigation, p. 09. 
After lliiiiiiiitt |tbat is, being passed over the flame] the 
pieces ihidcxl are successively laid on an inclined table 
cxpns.'d to the nre. Ure, Diet., III. 88. 
Flamed flowers, a florists' term applied to flowers the 
j.f(;ils of which have a bold dash of color down the center. 
flame-bearer (flam'bar"er), . 1. One who 
bears flame or light. 2. A book-name of hum- 
ming-birds of the genus Selnspltoriis. 
flame-bed (flam'bed), . A flue-space under a 
boiler, usually low and wide. 
flame-bridge (fiam'brij), n. A wall beneath a 
steam-boiler or heater which rises to within a 
short distance of its lower surface, and thus 
compels the flame or heated gases to pass along 
in contact with that surface. 
flame-cell (flam'sel), n. A formation of the 
terminations of the excretory system of some 
trematoid worms. 
The spaces between the round connective-tissue cells of 
the body are stellate in form, and into these the finest ex- 
cretory tubules open by funnels, into each of which pro- 
jects a vibratile cilium, thus constituting the flame-cells. 
Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 636. 
flame-chamber (flam'cham"ber), n. In a fur- 
nace, the space immediately behind the bridge, 
in which the combustion of the inflammable 
gases that pass over the bridge is or ought to 
be completed. Eanlcine, Steam Engine, $ 304. 
See flame-bridge. 
flame-color (flam'kuFor), n. A bright reddish- 
orange color, like that of clear flame from wood. 
The first was Splendour in a robe of flame-colour. 
B. Jorum, Masques at Court. 
Down from the casement over Arthur, smote 
Flame-colour, vert, and azure, in three rays. 
Tennyson, Coming of Arthur. 
flame-colored (flam'kul // ord), a. Of the color 
of flames. 
A fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffata. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., L 2. 
flame-enginet (flam'en' ! 'jin), n. A gas-engine. 
flame-eyed (flam'Id), a. Having eyes like a 
flame ; with bright-shining eyes ; angry-eyed. 
Nor silent deserts, nor the sullen grave, 
Where flame-ey'd Fury means to smite, can save. 
Quarles, Emblems. 
flame-flower (flam'flou"er), re. A name of 
species of Kniphofia ( Tritoma), bulbous plants 
from the Cape of Good Hope. Also called red- 
hot-poker. 
flameless (flam'les), a. [(.flame + -less."] Des- 
titute of flame. 
Detests his sanctuary, and forsakes 
His flameless altar. Sandys, Lament, p. 4. 
flamelet (flam'let), . [< flame + -let.] A lit- 
tle flame. 
The Yule-log cracked in the chimney, . . . 
And the flamelets flapped and flickered. 
Longfellow, King Witlaf's Drinking Horn. 
flamen (fla'men), n. [L. flamen (fldmin-), per- 
haps orig.*flagmen (he who burns the sacrifices?) 
(cf. flamma, orig. *flagma, flame), < ^/ "flag in 
flagrare, burn : see flame, n.] In Bom. antiq., a 
priest devoted to the service of one particular 
deity. Originally there were three priests so called : the 
flamen Dialw, consecrated to Jupiter ; the flamen Martia- 
lis, sacred to Mars ; and the flamen Quirinalis, who super- 
intended the rites of Quirinus or Romulus. The number 
was gradually increased to fifteen, but the original three 
retained priority in point of rank, being styled majores, 
and elected from among the patricians, while the other 
twelve, called minores, were elected from the plebeians. 
Their characteristic dress included the cap called the 
apex, the robe called the loma, and a wreath of laurel. 
Seld-shown flamens 
Do press among the popular throngs. 
Shak., Cor., ii. 1. 
A drear and dying sound 
Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint. 
Milton, Nativity, 1. 194. 
flamenship (fla'men -ship), n. [< flamen + 
-ship.] .The office or dignity of a flamen. 
C. Claudius, the arch flamine of Jupiter, lost his famine- 
ship and was deprived of that sacerdotall dignitie, because 
he had committed an error in sacrificing, when hee should 
minister and distribute the inwards of the beast. 
Holland, tr. of Livy, p. 601. 
flame-of-the-WOOds (flam'ov-the-wudz'), n, 
The Ixora coccinea, a rubiacepus shrub of India, 
frequently cultivated in tropical gardens for its 
large scarlet flowerS. 
flame-stop (flam'stop), n. Same as fire-bridge. 
flame-tree (flam'tre), n. 1. The Nmjtsia flori- 
bunda of western Australia, a loranthaceous 
tree with numerous brilliant orange-colored 
flowers. Also called fire-tree. 2. The Stercu- 
lin ncerifolia of New South Wales. 
flamfewst, n. pi- Kickshaws; trifles. Davies. 
Voyd ye fro these fla mfeivs, quoa the God. 
Stanihuret, Conceites, p. 138. 
flammeous 
flamineous (fla-min'e-us), a. [Prop, "flnmini- 
mis, < ],. Jliniiiiiiiin, of or belonging to a flamen: 
si'c i/iiiin'it.] Pertaining to a flamen ; flamini- 
cal. 
flaming (fla'ming), ;i. a. [Ppr. of flame, v. '.] 
1 . < )f a bright or gaudy color, as bright red or 
bright orange. 
Behold it like an ample curtain spread, 
Now streak'd anil plowing with the morning red ; 
Anon at noon in flaming yellow bright, 
And chusing sable for the peaceful night. Prior. 
2. Same as flamboyant, 2. 
Some of the sword blades are marvellously watered, sev- 
eral are sculptured in half relief with hunting scenes, anil 
others are strangely shaped, teethed like a saw, nd Mut- 
iny (flamboyant). O. C. M. Birdwood, Indian Arts, II. 6. 
3. Tending to excite; violent; vehement: as, 
a flaming harangue. 
flamingly (fla'mmg-li), adv. In a flaming man- 
ner ; with great show or vehemence ; passion- 
ately. 
How massie and sententious is Solomon in his Proverbs ! 
how quaint o.ndflamingly amorous in the Canticles ! 
Feltham, Resolves, i. 20. 
flamingo (fla-ming'go), . [= D. G. Dan. Sw. 
flamingo, < Pg. flamingo, formerly Jlamengo = 
Sp. flamenco, a flamingo, an accom., simulating 
Pg. Flamengo, Sp. Flamenco, a Fleming, in F. 
Flamand (see Fleming), of Pr. flammant, flam- 
bant, OF. flaman, also flnmbant, F. flamant, a 
flamingo, lit. flaming, blazing, in allusion to its 
scarlet plumage; ppr. of Pr. flumar = OF. flamer, 
etc., flame, blaze : seeflame,r.] Any bird of the 
family Plmnicopteridce : so called from the red or 
flaming color. 
Flamingos have 
extremely long 
slender legs and 
neck, a relatively 
small body, and 
large head, with a 
heavy bill bent ab- 
ruptly in the mid- 
dle and furnished 
with lamellie like 
a duck's. The feet 
are webbed, and 
the whole struc- 
ture is intermedi- 
ate between that of 
grallatorial birds, 
like herons and 
storks, and natato- 
rial birds, like the 
duck tribe. They 
thus constitute a 
superfamily group, 
called Amphimor- 
phfe, from the 
equivocal struc- 
ture. There are about eight species, of which the best- 
known is the common flamingo of the old world, Phteni- 
copterus antiquorum. The red flamingo of tropical and 
subtropical America is P. ruber; the African species is P. 
minor. There are two peculiar to South America, P. igni- 
palliatus and P. andimis. Details of structure have caused 
the erection of four genera for these birds. 
flamingo-plant (fla-ming'go-plant), n. The 
Anthurmm Scherzerianum, a greenhouse plant 
having a bright-scarlet spathe and spadix, 
whence the name. 
Flaminian (fla-min'i-an), a. Pertaining to 
Caius Flaminius (died 217 B. c.), a Roman cen- 
sor. Flaminian road (Latin Via Flaminiti), an ancient 
Roman road constructed from Rome to Ariminum in the 
censorship of Caius Flaminius, 220 B. c. 
flaminical (fla-miu'i-kal), . [< L. flamen (fla- 
mia-), flamen,' + -ic-al: see flamineous.] Per- 
taining to a Boman flamen or to his office and 
duties. 
How have they disflgur'd and defac't that more then an- 
gelick brightnes, the unclouded serenity of Christian Reli- 
gion, with the dark overcasting of superstitious coaps and 
flaminical vestures ! Milton, Church-Government, ii. 2. 
flammaMlityt(flam-a-bil'i-ti), n. [(.flammable: 
see -bility.] The quality of being inflammable ; 
inflammability. 
Proceeding from the sulphur of bodies terrified that 
is, the oily, fat, and unctuous parts wherein consist the 
principles of flammability. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vi. 12. 
flammablet (flam'a-bl), a. [< L. as if *flamma- 
bilis, < flammare, flame: see flame, v.] Capa- 
ble of being kindled into flame ; inflammable. 
Smart. 
flammationt (fla-ma'shon), n. [< L. as if *flam- 
matio(n-), < flammare, flame: see flame, v.] 
The act of setting on fire, or of iuflaming. 
White or crystalline arsenick, being artificial, and sub- 
limed with salt, will not endure flammation. 
Sir T. Broicne, Vulg. Err., ii. 5. 
flammeoust (flam 'e -us), a. [< L. flammeus, 
flaming, fiery, < flamma, a flame : see flame, n.] 
Pertaining to or consisting of flame; like flame. 
This flammeous light is not over all the body (of the glow- 
worm]. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 27. 
Red Flamingo (Phttnicopterus ruder). 
