flaring

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The lamp was flaring, and the room was stifling and smelt of kerosene.

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  1. Blazing; burning unsteadily.
  2. Gaudy; showy; flashy. Her chaste and modest vail, surrounded with celestial beams, they over-laid with wanton tresses, and in a flaring tire bespeckl'd her with all the gaudy allurements of a whore. Milton, Reformation in Eng., i.

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  • Torches flaring, the Bedouins rolled in a wave of rage upon Duzun Kado GET the door open, Long Tom," spoke the calm voice of the fat Syrian O. K., Doc," replied the black, mute slave, whipping a sharp tool equipped with a generator box from the sleeve of his gumbaz Doc Savage shed the abba he had been wearing as a Syrian. —  035 - Murder Mirage
  • For the first time, this flaring is seen in the outer blast wave. —  Scientific Frontline by SFL ORG Educational News Network
  • She marches through the halls with nostrils flaring, finds Ethan and delivers a slap heard 'round the world. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Wide, flaring, blunt tipped, or "bell" ears are a serious fault.
  • After a long period of X-ray flaring, the crust of a neutron star will heat up. —  Universe Today
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