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verb

Flare v. i. (past & past part. flared; pres. part. flaring)

1.

To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.

2.

To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.

3.

To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy. "With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head."

4.

To be exposed to too much light. (Obs.) "Flaring in sunshine all the day."

5.

To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.

To flare up, to become suddenly heated or excited; to burst into a passion. (Colloq.)

adjective

Flaring adj.

1.

That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light. "His (the sun's) flaring beams."

2.

Opening or speading outwards.

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Etymology of 'Flaring'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flaring" Quotes from Famous Books

... ablaze, while from the library, on the other, there was a furnace-like roar, as the flames literally charged up the oaken staircase, whose balusters were already glowing, and the gallery and corridor were fast flaring up as the fire licked and darted ...

— Crown and Sceptre - A West Country Story • George Manville Fenn

... love. "Well, I think I shall punish you, Miss Grey, for sending me a Christmas letter like that." Oh, the dear old playmate, the tease, the eyes full of tenderness when the child's shaft of satire hurt! He laughed gaily as he went through the historically famous test of courage in snuffing the flaring candle wicks with his fingers. The little cabin was warm, the night silent, not a sound came from the lines a mile away to disturb the peaceful memories of home within the thirty thousand pickets needed to guard our far-spread army. Men on both sides spoke this Christmas night, for they ...

— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell

... the morning From the rag-bag of the world! Scraps of dream and duds of daring, Home-brought stuff from far sea-faring, Faded colors once so flaring, Shreds of banners long since furled! Hues of ash and glints of glory, In the rag-bag of ...

— Songs from Vagabondia • Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey

... she must tomorrow find some work to do, for the landlady had twice asked her for the next week's rent. She looked in at the door of a laundry where a German woman was singing as she ironed children's dresses by the light of a flaring gas jet. It looked pleasant and peaceful in there. Perhaps that motherly woman would let her work with her. She ...

— Little Lost Sister • Virginia Brooks

... was just ascending, and soon after came down in the sea. The inns execrable. We got into one at last, in which there is a wide terrace looking over the sea, and there we ordered our dinner to be laid; but we were soon driven in, not by the cold, but by the flaring of ...

— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William - IV, Volume 1 (of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville

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