fiery : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fiery	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for fiery
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fiery adj characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" Synonym(s): ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid like or suggestive of fire; "a fiery desert wind"; "an igneous desert atmosphere" Synonym(s): fiery, igneous very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions" Synonym(s): fiery, flaming
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fiery \Fi"ery\ (? [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.