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Rendered fierce or frantic. [Obs.] "Like one enfeloned or distraught." Spenser.

bles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model. Such temperate order in so fierce a cause Doth want example. Shak.

o extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right. A light which the fierce winds have no power to extinguish. Prescott. This extinguishes my right to the reversion. Blackstone.

imaginary being supposed to inhabit mines, etc. German folklore tells of two species; one fierce and malevolent, the other gentle, See Kobold. No goblin or swart fairy of the mine Hath hurtful power over true virginity. Milton.

Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous. While we devise fell tortures for thy faults. Shak.

The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity. Spenser.

, adv. In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely. Spenser.

Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal. Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate. Pope.

Fierce. [Obs.]

, compar. of Fere, fierce. [Obs.] Rhenus ferier than the cataract. Marston.

Wildness; savageness; fierceness. [Obs.] Woodward.

Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion. The humbled power of a ferocious enemy. Lowth.

Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.

Fierce. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint. Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound. Dryden.

Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited. One curbed the fiery steed. Dryden.

To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion. [Archaic] Carcyle.

One who engages in any fierce combat or controversy.

To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. Byron.

a Puritan. [Obs.] Latimer. The persecution was carried on against the gospelers with much fierceness by those of the Roman persuasion. Strype.