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A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake. Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty Shak. It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. Thackeray.

A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.

A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.

Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; shedding cheerfulness and joy around; cheerful; cheery. Be bright and jovial among your guests. Shak.

In a gay, showy, and sparkling style.

Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star.

To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially. [Archaic] Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape. Denham. Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. Young.

red with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.

The ridge or top of wave. Like wave with crest of sparkling foam. Sir W. Scott.

Lively; sparking; effervescing. Your neat crisp claret. Beau & Fl.

inge to all his views of human nature. Macaulay. There is, in every true woman-s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. W. Irving.

Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.

o ravage; as, a fire desolates a city. Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war. Sparks.

To scatter; to disparkle. [Obs.] Mandeville.

Decided; resolute. "Adetermined foe."" Sparks.

points, and nearly meeting, for the purpose of exploding gaseous mixtures by an electric spark, as in gas analysis, etc.

ument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.

electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an electric spark.

A flying off in small particles, as heated iron or fermenting liquors; a sparkling; scintillation. Sir T. Browne.