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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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Etymology of 'Flare'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flare" Quotes from Famous Books

... would have run if he had known which way to run. He had seen two lambent green dots glowing above him and had fired with that quick instinct of placing his shot—the result of long practice. The flopping and coughing ceased. Pete, with cocked gun poked ahead of him, struck a match. In its pale flare he saw the long gray shape of a mountain lien stretched across the trail. Evidently the lion had smelled the blood of the deer, or the odor of the sweating horses—a mountain lion likes horse-flesh better than anything else—and had padded down the trail in the darkness, following as close ...

— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... of the gong carried the order to take up everything and bear it beyond highwater mark, and the flare-lamps broke out by the hundred between the webs of dull iron as the riveters began a night's work, racing against the flood that was to come. The girders of the three centre piers—those that stood on the cribs—were all but in position. They needed just as many rivets as could be driven ...

— The Day's Work, Volume 1 • Rudyard Kipling

... in English, which he did not often do in conversation with her. It was a sign that he was somewhat wrought upon. She followed his rapid words with difficulty; but she caught from them a new note of feeling. He saw a little pale flare shoot across her face and ...

— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson

... little more than a cable's length from the shore, so that you can almost look down upon her decks. You perceive that she is a handsome craft of some six or seven hundred tons burthen, standing high out of water, in ballast trim, with a black hull, bright waist, and wales painted white. Her bows flare very much, and are sharp and symmetrical; the cut-water stretches, with a graceful curve, far out beyond them toward the long sweeping martingal, and is surmounted by a gilt scroll, or, as the sailors call it, a fiddle-head. The black stern is ornamented ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various

... his own admirable rule, that "an author is not to write all he can, but only all he ought."[26] In his worst images, however, there is often a vividness that half excuses them. But it is a grotesque vividness, as from the flare of a bonfire. They do not flash into sudden lustre, as in the great poets, where the imaginations of poet and reader leap toward each ...

— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell

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