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flamy, a.|ˈfleɪmɪ|
Forms: 5–7 flammy, 6 flambye, 7 flamie, 6– flamy.
[f. flame n. + -y1.]
1. Of or pertaining to flame or flames; consisting of flames; beset with flames.
1494Fabyan Chron. vi. clxiii. 156 The hydde fyre in processe breketh oute and shewith great lyghte and flammy blase. 1558Bp. Watson Sev. Sacram. xvi. 100 The fyerye floude..dothe ouerflowe with his flambye waues. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. ii. (1626) 225 He..foure times assaild To sack the flamie Pile. 1752H. M[oore] To Memory of Dr. Doddridge vi, The flamy Car, fire-breathing Coursers drew. 1814Cary Dante, Paradise xxv. 133 The flamy circle at that voice so rested.
2. Resembling flame; flame-like.
1626Bacon Sylva §30 Vital spirits..are a substance compounded of an airy and flamy matter. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 47 A flammy rednesse will orespread the heavens. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal (1673) 22 The..flamy vail he wears. 1715–20Pope Iliad xiv. 400 And flamy crocus made the mountain glow. 1801Southey Thalaba ix. vii, Her flamy hairs curl up. 1875H. R. Proctor in Encycl. Brit. III. 94/2 Should the aurora be flamy, and shoot out rays.
fig.a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. xvii. 176 b, My thoughts..With flamie breathes doo issue oft in sound. 1845Carlyle Cromwell (1871) IV. 3 A very flamy, fuliginous set of doctrines.
†3. Performed by the agency of flame. Obs.
c1611Chapman Iliad vii. 69 His body I'll resign To be disposed by his friends in flamy funerals. 1635Swan Spec. M. vi. §2 (1643) 202 [Water] can..keep our mansions from..a flamie conversion into ashes.
4. Comb., as flamy-glittering.
1581Sidney Astr. & Stella lxxvi, Her flamy-glittering lights increase with time and place. |