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fiery, a.|ˈfaɪərɪ|
Forms: 3 furie, -y, fuyre, -i, -y, 4–6 fyre, -ie, -y, 4–7 firie, -y(e, (5 fery), 6–7 fierie, (6 fyeri), 6–9 fir(e)y, 6– fiery.
[f. fire n. + -y1. Cf. OFris. fiurech, Du. vurig, Da. fyrig, MHG. viurec, viuric (Ger. feurig).]
1. a. Consisting of or containing fire; flaming with fire. fiery-drake, fiery-dragon = fire-drake.
c1275Passion 660 in O.E. Misc. 56 Þe holy gost heom com vp-on in fury tunge. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 39/175 A fiery Drake þar-opon: a-ȝein heom cominde huy seiȝe. 1393Gower Conf. II. 183 For to wissen hem by night A firy piller hem alight. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 3 b, The holy goost appered on y⊇ apostles in fyry tonges. 1611Bible Dan. iii. 23 These three men..fell downe bound into the midst of the burning fierie furnace. a1800Cowper Heroism 85 Where no volcano pours his fiery flood. a1822Shelley Satire upon Sat. 34 And rains on him like flakes of fiery snow. 1832H. T. De la Beche Geol. Man. (ed. 2) 113 One vast flood of burning matter..rolling to and fro its ‘fiery surge’.
fig.1866B. Taylor Palm & Pine, Passion's fiery flood.
b. Fire-bearing; esp. of an arrow, dart, etc. lit. and fig.
c1300St. Brandan 332 Tho ther com in a furi arewe at a fenestre. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 706 Loue hath his firy dart so brenningly Ystiked thurgh my..hert. c1500Lancelot 1227 Loues fyre dart..smat one to the hart. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 447 He deals his fiery Bolts about. 1796H. Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) I. 86 The Father of Day, with his fiery shafts. a1822Shelley To Italy 3 As the earthquake's fiery flight.
c. In biblical allusions: Attended with or performed by a display of fire.
1847Emerson Poems, Problem Wks. (Bohn) I. 401 Ever the fiery Pentecost Girds with one flame the countless host. 1850Hare Mission Comf. 9 The firy baptism of the day of Pentecost. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 233 The awful fiery Law [see Deut. xxxiii. 2]..delivered by God Himself.
2. Depending on or performed by the agency of fire; in fiery trial with reference to the testing of metals; also, † of a metal, tested by fire. † fiery weapons = fire-arms. fiery wound: a wound inflicted by fire-arms.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xxv. (1535) 127/1 He [Mars] dysposethe and makethe able to fyrye werkes and craftes. 1555Philpot in Strype Eccl. Mem. III. App. xlviii. 156, I cownsel ye therfor to the fyeri Gold of the Deity of owre Christ. 1598Barret Theor. Warres i. i. 2 The wars are much altered since the fierie weapons first came vp. Ibid. 3 Well wishing in my hart..that this infernall fierie engine had never bin found out. 1611Bible 1 Pet. iv. 12 Thinke it not strange concerning the fiery triall which is to trie you. 1704Pope Windsor For. 113 The whirring pheasant feels the fiery wound. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. xxiv. 395 The fiery trial which England went through.
3. a. Having the appearance of fire; brightly glowing or flaming, of a blazing red.
14..MS. Herald's Office in R. Glouc. (1724) 484 note, In whiche enetid appered in the West ii. sterres of fuyry colour. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxxii. 252 Many sterres..fyl doun to the erth leuyng behynde hem fery bemes. 1561Burn. Paules Ch. A ij, On Wednesday..was seene a marueilous great fyrie lightning. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. lxxv. 7 Flyeth firie light. 1601? Marston Pasquil & Kath. i. 208 Your nose is firie enough. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 6 The head, and back parts to the tail, are of a fiery colour. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. iv. (1840) 102 These fiery appearances are nothing but certain collections of matter exhaled by the influence of the sun from the earth. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest xi, The sun threw a fiery gleam athwart the woods. 1878Morley Crit. Misc., Carlyle 163 Veiled by purple or fiery clouds of anger.
b. absol. or quasi-n. rare.
1847L. Hunt Men, Women, & B. I. xiv. 239 Hair amounting to a positive fiery.
c. Of eyes (with mixture of sense 5): Flashing, glowing, ardent.
1568R. Grafton Chron. (1812) II. 192 The king..having black eyes, which when he waxed angry, would seeme to be fyrie. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. ii. 186 Cicero Lookes with such Ferret and such fiery eyes. 1819Shelley Cyclops 463 So will I, in the Cyclops fiery eye. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 32 The dark fiery eye and marked features of the Neapolitan fisherman.
4. a. Hot as fire; blazing, burning, red hot. † fiery-triplicity: see quot. 1730.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 105/146 Nomen huy pich and brum⁓ston..And ope hire nakede tendre bodi al-fuyri it casten. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6866 Þat, heo wolde þoru fury yre. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 461 Ony spark out of ane fyrie brand. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. §54. 115 The sword which is made fierie doth not only cut..but also burne. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 157 The fiery Suns too fiercely Play. 1726tr. Gregory's Astron. I. Pref. 5 That the Sun and Stars were fiery or red-hot Stones. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Fiery triplicity, are those signs of the zodiack which surpass the rest in fiery qualities, as Leo, Aries, and Sagittarius. 1744Berkeley Siris §186 The throne of God appeared like a fiery flame. 1836Macgillivray tr. Humboldt's Trav. xx. 291 The sky became clearer..and the atmosphere more fiery.
fig.a1340Hampole Psalter cxviii. 140 Þe worde þat is fyry thorgh þe haly gast. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, i. iv. 87 Hath thy fierie heart so parcht thy entrayles?
b. Of a tumour, etc.: Burning, inflamed. fiery face: one affected by erysipelas.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme ii. xliv. 291 Of these two ointments, the first is better for..skurfs, and firy faces. 1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. Dict. (1771) B bb, Antrax, a red fiery Tumour. 1784Cowper Task ii. 183 Bids a plague Kindle a fiery boil upon the skin.
c. Acting like fire; productive of a burning sensation or inflammation.
1535Coverdale Isa. xiv. 29 The frute shalbe a fyrie worme. 1577J. Northbrooke Dicing (1843) 5 This is that fyrie serpent, that as many as looke vpon him should liue. 1611Bible Num. xxi. 6 Fierie serpents. 1821Shelley Hellas 553 Like a fiery plague breaks out anew. 1855Bain Senses & Int. ii. ii. §15 The fiery taste of alcoholic liquors.
d. Cricket. Causing the ball to fly up after pitching. (Cf. fire n. A. 15.)
1877C. Box Eng. Game Cricket xxvi. 450 Fiery, one of the ungenerous appellations a ground receives when it is hard, and probably not so verdant as a lawn or smooth as a billiard table. 1882Austral. in Eng. 181 The wicket was fiery and the outfielding rough. 1893Baily's Mag. Oct. 255/1 Fiery wickets are not at all desirable, since they introduce an element of danger into the game which is customarily absent. 1909Westm. Gaz. 7 Aug. 11/2 Mr. Carr is indispensable to an England eleven on any wicket—fast, slow, crumbly, fiery.
5. Of persons, their actions and attributes:
a. Ardent, eager, fierce, spirited.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 2292 Philomene, He caste his fery herte up-on hyre. 1393Gower Conf. III. 237 Sardana⁓pallus..Was..Fall into thilke firy rage Of love. 1529More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. Wks. 1219/1 Y⊇ firye affeccion that we beare to our owne filthy fleshe. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iv. iii. 54 Then fierie expedition be my wing. 1650Hubert Pill Formality 24 Very fiery and zealous for the maintenance of Episcopacy. 1681Dryden Abs. & Achit. 156 A fiery Soul, which working out its way, Fretted the Pigmy-Body to decay. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 459 Adventures irresistibly attractive to his fiery nature. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. v. 290 Such fiery zeal implies the firmest belief.
b. Fiercely irritable; easily moved to violent anger.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. iv. iv. 53 Alas how fiery, and how sharpe he lookes. 1640in Hamilton Papers (Camden) App. 259 His speeches did so fascinate the old fiery little man. 1710Tatler No. 231 ⁋2 A terrible Apprehension of his fiery Spirit. 1752Young Brothers i. i, Rome calls me fiery: Let her find me so! 1806T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. (ed. 3) II. 273 The signor and this fiery Montagu exchanged some fierce looks. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos II. xv. 163 Charles, in his fiery petulance, declared that he would go.
c. Of a horse: Mettlesome, spirited.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, v. ii. 8 The Duke..Mounted vpon a hot and fierie Steed. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 130 The fiery Courser..Pricks up his Ears. 1827Lytton Pelham x, My horse was..the most fiery..in Paris.
6. Of a vapour, esp. gas in a mine: Liable to take fire, highly inflammable. Hence of a mine, etc.: Containing inflammable gas, liable to explosions from firedamp.
1751R. Pococke Trav. Eng. (1888) I. 206 They are much troubled with what they call fiery air..When it is very bad, they let down a candle by a rope, to set fire to the fiery damp, as they call it. Ibid. 207 Nothing but the vapours or fiery damp that come out of the spring. 1851Greenwell Coal-trade Terms Northumb. & Durh. 27 A furnace of the width of 10 feet..will..be sufficient for any mine, however fiery. 1868Daily News 30 Nov., The seam of coal was known to be..a fiery one. 1887Ibid. 30 May 5/3 Both pits are situated in what the miners..call a ‘fiery’ district.
7. attrib. and Comb.
a. adverbial, as fiery-bright, fiery-fierce, fiery-flaming, fiery-hot, fiery-kindled, fiery-liquid, fiery-rash, fiery-red, fiery-seeming, fiery-shining, fiery-short, fiery-sparkling, fiery-twinkling.
b. parasynthetic, as fiery-faced, fiery-footed, fiery-helmed, fiery-hoofed, fiery-mouthed, fiery-pointed, fiery-spangled, fiery-spirited, fiery-sworded, fiery-tressed, fiery-visaged, fiery-wheeled, fiery-winged. Also, fiery-new, † (a) = brand-new obs. (cf. fire-new); (b) of wine, not yet mellowed; fiery-puissant, transl. of L. ignipotens, working powerfully with fire.
1531Elyot Gov. ii. vi, The eien *firye bright. 1594Spenser Amoretti xvi, Legions of loves..Darting their deadly arrowes, fyry bright.
1588Fraunce Lawiers Log. Ded., A raging and *fireyfaced Aristotelean.
1819Shelley Cyclops 486 The Cyclops' eye so *fiery fierce.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. Columnes 469 David..Holds a fierce Lyon's *fiery flaming Crest.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. xii. 2 Scarcely had Phœbus..harnessed his *fyrie-footed team. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. ii. 1 Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. xxxii, A fiery-footed boy, Benempt Dispatch.
1715–20Pope Iliad xx. 52 In aid of Troy..came, Mars *fiery-helm'd.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. i. 3 Where Titan still vnyokes his *fiery-hoofed Teame.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xi. xiii. (1495) 398 Whan *firy hote yren is quenchyd in water.
14..Hoccleve Compl. Virgin 221 Now thow art frosty cold now *fyry hoot. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cxiv, Some wild Pallas..fiery-hot to burst Al barriers.
1595Shakes. John ii. i. 358 Backe to the stained field You equall Potents, *fierie kindled spirits.
1655H. Vaughan Silex Scint. i. Midnight (1858) 54 Thy heav'ns..Are a *firie-liquid light.
1596Spenser F.Q. v. viii. 40 The *firie-mouthed steedes.
1644Feast of Feasts 2 Take a taste of their new, *fiery-new Divinity. 1842Tennyson Will Waterproof 98 The vintage, yet unkept, Had relish, fiery-new.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 372 The fair and *fiery-pointed sun.
1573Twyne æneid x. E e j, Take that shield which..The *fyrypuissant god unvict gaue thee.
1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 212 Which *fierie-rash temper of his.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, ii. iii. 58 Here come the Lords..*fierie red with haste. 1846G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. II. 228 The urine was usually of a fiery-red colour.
1628F. Fletcher Drake's Voy. (Hakl. Soc.) 149 An infinite swarme of *fierie-seeming wormes flying in the aire.
1594? Greene Selimus Wks. XIV. 288 Mars..Mounted vpon his *firie-shining waine.
1847Tennyson Princ. v. 297 *Fiery-short was Cyril's counter-scoff.
1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. v. ii, Even from the *fiery-spangled bed of heaven.
1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 63 The *fierie-sparkling precious Chrysolite.
1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nature's Paradox 266 The *fiery-spirited Beast..carried Liante towards the besieger's Trenches.
1821Byron Cain i. i, Guarded by *fiery-sworded cherubim.
1745–6Collins Ode to Liberty 97 The *fiery-tressed Dane..o'erturn'd the fane.
a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 15 'Mong..*fiery twinkling gleams Of warm vermilion swords.
1813Shelley Q. Mab vii. 87 The *fiery-visaged firmament expressed Abhorrence.
1632Milton Penseroso 51 The *fiery-wheeléd throne.
1757Dyer Fleece iv. 211 *Fiery-winged winds..rous'd by sudden storms.
c. In the names of birds and animals: fiery-brandtail, the redstart (Ruticilla phœnicurus); fiery-flare, -flaw = fire-flaire, the sting-ray; fiery-tangs, dial. (see quot.); fiery-topaz, a species of humming bird.
1813J. Headrick Agric. Surv. Forfars. App. 55 Both these species [crab and lobster] are called in Angusshire..Firy-tangs. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Fiery-flaw or fire-flaire, a northern designation of the sting-ray (Raia pastinaca). 1868Wood Homes without H. xxix. 554 The oddly shaped nest..is made by the Fiery Topaz (Topaza pyra). 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Fiery-bran'tail, the Redstart. |