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adjective

Fiery adj.

Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance. "And fiery billows roll below."

Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous. "Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails?" "The fiery spirit of his forefathers."

Passionate; easily provoked; irritable. "You know the fiery quality of the duke."

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

Heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish. "The sword which is made fiery."

Fiery cross, a cross constructed of two firebrands, and pitched upon the point of a spear; formerly in Scotland borne by a runner as a signal for the clan to take up arms.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... and ran at Mr Sudberry, intending to overwhelm him with one blow, and rob him on the spot. The big blockhead little knew his man. He did not know that the little Englishman was a man of iron frame; he only regarded him as a fiery little gentleman. Still less did he know that Mr Sudberry had in his youth been an expert boxer, and that he had even had the honour of being knocked flat on his back more than once by professional gentlemen—in an amicable way, of course—at four and sixpence a lesson. He knew nothing ...

— Freaks on the Fells - Three Months' Rustication • R.M. Ballantyne

... skinned alive. But he had stopped trembling and he held up his head. Next he saw Hawkins shaking something in a thick, long-necked bottle. Suddenly two grooms held Bonfire's jaws apart while Hawkins poured a liquid down his throat. It was fiery stuff that seemed to burn its way, and its immediate effect ...

— Horses Nine - Stories of Harness and Saddle • Sewell Ford

... but to die, and go we know not where, To lie in cold obstruction and to rot: This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice, To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain ...

— Montaigne and Shakspere • John M. Robertson

... Here am I, St. George, That worthy champion bold, And with my sword and spear I won three crowns of gold. I fought the fiery dragon, And brought him to the slaughter; By that I won fair Sabra, The King of Egypt's daughter. Where is the man, that now will me defy? I'll cut his giblets full of holes, ...

— Everyman and Other Old Religious Plays, with an Introduction • Anonymous

... times the responsibility for this act has been thrown on the King. Contemporaries of moderate views, and who favoured the Parliament, were of opinion however that the responsibility rather lay with those fiery and crafty men who had possessed themselves of the control of Parliament. For they thought that the King had seriously striven to compose the quarrel: that people might well have accepted his first declaration, and that the greater ...

— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke

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