Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who bears flame or light.
  • noun A book-name of humming-birds of the genus Selasphorus.

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  • A hundred years later, the Welsh poems seem to say, Ida "the flame-bearer," fought his way down from a petty principality on the Forth, and occupied the whole

    Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873

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