Word Finder - flames

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The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.

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A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.

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Intentionally insulting criticism or remark meant to incite anger.

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A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour.

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The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the curl.

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The cello has a two-piece back with a beautiful narrow flame.

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Burning zeal, passion, imagination, excitement, or anger.

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To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.

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To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.

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To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).

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I flamed him for spamming in my favourite newsgroup.

He gazed into the black flames of the fire in the hearth.

The flames swallowed it.

The stove popped an angry protest about the growing flames and she flinched.

It gave off heat despite the black flames.

The earth in flames, with earthquakes swallowing whole towns and buildings burning.

The favourite Buckingham stirred the flames of his master's discontent.

She sat on her feet and huddled under the blanket, watching the flames grow.

This may be shown by furnishing the pipes with manometric flames placed in the same vertical line.

A slave, having detected her in the act of embracing it and supposing it to be a lover, informed her father, who ordered her to burn the image; whereupon she threw herself with it into the flames.

A small cluster of flames was struggling to stay alive in a pile of logs.

The village was burned by the British under Governor Tryon on the 12th of July 1779, and the chair in which it is alleged Tryon sat, on Grumman's Hill, as he watched the flames, has been kept as a relic. Norwalk was incorporated as a borough in 1836 and was chartered as a city in 1893.

This was also released in the UK and rekindled old flames for the Stax pranksters - the lads are back in town!

The woodman stirred the fire until the flames leaped high and the sparks flew out of the roof hole.

A dark form hunkered before the fire, feeding small twigs to the flames.

So why did he feel a twinge of loss at the order to send it up in flames?

One opened it for him, and she trailed him into a large bedchamber complete with a hearth burning black flames.

After the close of the diet the papal nuncio went to the Netherlands, where he kindled the flames of persecution, two monks of Antwerp, the first martyrs of the Reformation, being burnt in Brussels at his instigation.

The glass in process of fusion is contained in a basin or tank built up of large blocks of fire-clay and is heated by one or more powerful gas flames which enter the upper part of the furnace chamber through suitable apertures or " ports."

The excretory system consists of peculiar cells, each of which bears several"flames" or bunches of synchronously vibrating cilia.

We nicknamed him the Phoenix, which is notorious for not only rising from ashes but also for taking down everyone and everything around them in flames.

Sasha was waiting for him in his study, sitting beside a fireplace that burned with black flames.

Rhyn refused it and threw himself onto the comfy couch farther away from Hell's flames.

His gaze took in Sasha before sliding to the black flames.

She had nothing better to do, not with her source of alcohol gone and her bed in flames.

The healers. village consisted of several dozen cottages around a central square, in which many of the village.s people gathered and talked or cooked meals over red flames.

Jackson had started a fire and stood with his hands on the mantle, watching the flames.

She instantly leaped to the side and rolled away from the animal, glancing up as the rifle belched flames.

I want to look at the logs for the past few days to see if any of the scouts have reported any other fed buildings going up in flames.

It laid down the lawfulness and necessity of persecution to the death for heresy in the most absolute terms; and Cranmer himself condemned Joan Bocher to the flames.

As he had said, his right hand was steadfastly exposed to the flames.

Signs of this fire are still visible on the walls, which are in part tinged red by the flames.

Petroleum (" burning water ") was known in Japan in the 7th century, whilst in Europe the gas springs of the north of Italy led to the adoption in 1226 by the municipality of Salsomaggiore of a salamander surrounded by flames as its emblem.

The flames and smoke of the destroyed villages were clearly seen from the allied fleet.

The deceased rao had declared himself a Mahommedan, and his adherents were preparing to inter his body in a magnificent tomb, when the Jarejas and other Hindus seized the corpse and consigned it to the flames, according to Hindu custom.

The Franciscans began to urge fantastic' objections, and, when Savonarola insisted that his champion should bear the host, they cried out against the sacrilege of exposing the Redeemer's body to the flames.

For a moment the wind blew the flames aside, leaving the corpses untouched.

When the flames had done their office, the ashes that were left and even the soil on which they lay were carefully removed and thrown into the Rhine.

He committed to the flames the whole body of the canon law, together with an edict of the head of the Church which had recently been issued against his teachings.

The pipe is provided with manometric flames at its middle point, and at one-quarter and three-quarters of its length.

When the flames are viewed in a revolving mirror and the pipes are blown, each image of one flame lies between two images of the other.

The photographs obtained on that occasion proved beyond doubt the solar character of the prominences or red flames, seen around the limb of the moon during a solar eclipse.

Before his decease Smith directed that all his manuscripts except a few selected essays should be destroyed, and they were accordingly committed to the flames.

In 1531 the Book of Jonah appeared with an important and highly interesting prologue, the only copy known of which is in the British Museum.6 Meanwhile the demand for New Testaments, for reading or for the flames, steadily increased, and the printers found it to their advantage to issue the Worms edition of the New Testament in not less than three surreptitious reprints before 1534.

Becquerel, however, investigated the character of the dispersion by using prism-shaped flames strongly coloured with sodium.

Hitherto we were entirely and still are generally confined to electrical excitation or to chemical action as in the case of flames.

This is consistent with Kirchhoff's law and shows that the sodium in a flame possesses the same relative radiation and absorption as sodium vapour heated thermally to the temperature of the flames.

The Order of Pius was founded in 1847 by Pius IX.; there are now three classes; the badge is an eight-pointed blue star with golden flames between the rays, a white centre bears the founder's name; the ribbon is blue with two red stripes at each border.

There are numerous types of boilers in use, illustrative of efforts to secure as much exposure as possible to the action of the flames.

On the 6th, therefore, the homeward march was commenced, the city being left behind in flames.

The royal palace of Christiansborg, originally built (1731-1745) by Christian VI., destroyed by fire in 1794, and rebuilt, again fell in flames in 1884.