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Flare   /flɛr/   Listen
noun
Flare  n.  
1.
An unsteady, broad, offensive light.
2.
A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
3.
(Photog.) A defect in a photographic objective such that an image of the stop, or diaphragm, appears as a fogged spot in the center of the developed negative.


Flare  n.  Leaf of lard. "Pig's flare."


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.)





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"Flare" Quotes from Famous Books



... the narrow space thus cleared and by the narrower radius of match flare, crouched ...
— His Dog • Albert Payson Terhune
... Mahmoud on a splendid war-horse, and five of his mounted staff, arrived at the head of the oncoming column; and Kagig saw them in a moment when the flare from the castle roared like a rocket hundreds of feet high and scattered all the shadows on that section of the road. Kagig passed the word along, but it was Monty who devised the instant plan, and one of Will's men who came ...
— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy
... have sworn that Carroll was surprised at Barker's flare of anger—or else that it had passed unnoticed. "I just figured that you, having been his valet, and knowing a good deal about him, would ...
— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen
... for my case of lucifers, and made a faint light by which she might read. The flare of the match lit up her face perfectly, bringing out the framing roll of thick dark hair, from which, as a high light in a mass of shadows, the clear and yet strong features of her face showed plainly. I saw the long lashes ...
— 54-40 or Fight • Emerson Hough
... was sacrilege. In reading his "Troilus and Cressida," you ever and anon fear you have lost your senses. Bits of veritable Shakspearean gold, burnished star-bright, embossed in pewter! Diamonds set in dirt! Sentences illuminated with words of power, suddenly rising and sinking, through a flare of fustian! Here Apollo's ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various


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