Fi"er*y (? or ?), a. [Formerly written firy, fr. fire.]
1. Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the
fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.
And fiery billows roll below.
I. Watts. 2. Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.
Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails?
Shak.
The fiery
spirit of his forefathers.
W.
Irwing. 3. Passionate; easily
provoked; irritable.
You know the
fiery quality of the duke.
Shak.
4. Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
One curbed the fiery steed.
Dryden. 5. heated by
fire, or as
if by fire;
burning hot; parched; feverish. Pope.
The sword which is made fiery.
Hooker. 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. Sir W. Scott.
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