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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flaming \Flam"ing\, a. 1. Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating. 2. Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling. ``In flaming yellow bright.'' --Prior. 3. Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as a flaming proclomation or harangue. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flame \Flame\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flamed}; p. pr & vb n. {Flaming}.] [OE. flamen, flaumben F. flamber, OF also flamer. See {Flame}, n.] 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 --Shak. 2. To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor. He flamed with indignation. --Macaulay. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: flaming adj 1: resembling flame in brilliance or color; "maple trees ablaze in autumn"; "flaming autumn leaves" [syn: {ablaze}] 2: lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on fire" [syn: {ablaze(p)}, {afire(p)}, {aflame(p)}, {aflare(p)}, {alight(p)}, {blazing}, {burning}, {on fire(p)}] 3: (used of persons) informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot" [syn: {bally(a)}, {blinking(a)}, {bloody(a)}, {crashing(a)}, {flaming(a)}, {fucking(a)}] 4: very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions" [syn: {fiery}] n : the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and often smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries" [syn: {fire}, {flame}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: flaming {flame}
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