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Flame   /fleɪm/   Listen
noun
Flame  n.  
1.
A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.
2.
Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger. "In a flame of zeal severe." "Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow." "Smit with the love of sister arts we came, And met congenial, mingling flame with flame."
3.
Ardor of affection; the passion of love.
4.
A person beloved; a sweetheart.
Synonyms: Blaze; brightness; ardor. See Blaze.
Flame bridge, a bridge wall. See Bridge, n., 5.
Flame color, brilliant orange or yellow.
Flame engine, an early name for the gas engine.
Flame manometer, an instrument, invented by Koenig, to obtain graphic representation of the action of the human vocal organs. See Manometer.
Flame reaction (Chem.), a method of testing for the presence of certain elements by the characteristic color imparted to a flame; as, sodium colors a flame yellow, potassium violet, lithium crimson, boracic acid green, etc. Cf. Spectrum analysis, under Spectrum.
Flame tree (Bot.), a tree with showy scarlet flowers, as the Rhododendron arboreum in India, and the Brachychiton acerifolium of Australia.


verb
Flame  v. t.  To kindle; to inflame; to excite. "And flamed with zeal of vengeance inwardly."


Flame  v. i.  (past & past part. flamed; pres. part. flaming)  
1.
To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze. "The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame again."
2.
To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor. "He flamed with indignation."





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"Flame" Quotes from Famous Books



... glance, how it should happen till she saw, against a closet-door ajar, a gibbous sphere of red and golden flame. Yards apart the points were, and a shadow lay between; but the one sure sunbeam knew no distance, and there was no radiant line ...
— Real Folks • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... calls it. Fire can stand any wind, but is easily blown out, and then come smouldering and smoke, and profitless, slow combustion without the cheerful blaze which sheds light all round it. The one Reader's hand may shelter the flame; the one blessed ministering spirit with the vessel of oil may keep it bright in spite of the stream of cold water on the other side doing its best to put ...
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... was a tone warning the mother that opposition would only feed the flame, and so she offered none directly, but heard him patiently to the end, and then quietly questioned him of Katy and her family, especially the last. What did he know of it? Was it one to detract from the Cameron line kept untarnished so long? ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... for ever and thy prize. Thou that art gifted with glances that make mankind thy slaves, Pray we may come off scathless from the sorcery of thine eyes. Two opposites, fire, incarnate in shining splendour of flame, And water, thy cheek uniteth, conjoined in wondrous wise. How dulcet and yet how bitter thou art to my heart, alack! To which thou at once and ever art Hell ...
— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume III • Anonymous
... devil hast thou to do with the time of the day? Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no reason why thou should'st be so superfluous to demand the ...
— Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 • Arthur Acheson


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