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elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger. "In a flame of zeal severe." Milton. Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow. Pope. Smit with the love of sister arts we came, And met congenial, mingling flame with flame. Pope.

Of the color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color. Shak.

Destitute of flame. Sandys.

A small flame. The flamelets gleamed and flickered. Longfellow.

epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis. Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze. G. Eliot.

To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.

The European band fish (Cepola rubescens).

To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow. We should have made retreat By light of the inflamed fleet. Chapman.

Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame.

The person or thing that inflames. Addison.

To kindle again into flame.

Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.

Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. Ure.

Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust." Milton.

righten; to alarm. Dreams affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

Lighted; lighted up; in a flame. "The lamps were alight." Dickens.

To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame. [Obs.] He . . . angereth malign ulcers. Bacon.

Inflamed and painful, as a sore.

taining little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal.