The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fiery \Fi"er*y\ (? or ?), a. [Formerly written firy, fr. fire.]
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Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.
And fiery billows roll below.
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Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.
Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails?
--Shak.The fiery spirit of his forefathers.
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Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.
You know the fiery quality of the duke.
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Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
One curbed the fiery steed.
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heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish.
--Pope.The sword which is made fiery.
--Hooker.Fiery cross, a cross constructed of two firebrands, and pitched upon the point of a spear; formerly in Scotland borne by a runner as a signal for the clan to take up arms.
--Sir W. Scott.
Wiktionary
n. A burning cross made of wood, historically used to rally troops.
Wikipedia
A fiery cross is a term used in early Scotland and Scandinavia for burning a piece of wood as a beacon.
Fiery Cross or fiery cross or similar may also refer to:
- Cross burning, in Ku Klux Klan tradition
- Fiery Cross (clipper), a sailing ship
- The Fiery Cross (novel), a novel that is a part of the Outlander series
- The Fiery Cross (newsletter), formerly the newsletter of the United Klans of America
- Heroes of the Fiery Cross, pro-Klan book published in 1928 by Alma Bridwell White
- Fiery Cross Reef, was a group of three reefs on the western edge of Dangerous Ground in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea
Usage examples of "fiery cross".
Then had come Charles Stuart, and his inad march to gloryl- a fiery cross leading his followers to shambles and destruction.
No sooner had the door clicked shut behind them than there was a great rumbling, and once again the wall began to revolve very fast, but now there was a great red-gold blur in amongst the faint blue and, when all became still again, the fiery cross still burned, showing the door they had already tried.
In the south the Great Cross stood high, but it was washed out into insignificance by the huge fiery cross that burned closer and fiercer at the head of the open forest glade.
Beneath the fiery cross the ranks of storm-troopers were massed and their polished cross belts and buckles glinted in its light and in that of the burning torches each of them held high.
Where the cube had been was now a tremendous, fiery cross--a cross inverted.
She moved around the room, and stopped at a picture of a fiery cross.