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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fiery \Fi"er*y\ (? or ?), a. [Formerly written firy, fr. fire.]
     1. Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the
        fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.
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              And fiery billows roll below.         --I. Watts.


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     2. Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.
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              Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails?
                                                    --Shak.
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              The fiery spirit of his forefathers.  --W. Irwing.
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     3. Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.
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              You know the fiery quality of the duke. --Shak.
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     4. Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
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              One curbed the fiery steed.           --Dryden.
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     5. heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched;
        feverish. --Pope.
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              The sword which is made fiery.        --Hooker.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fiery
       adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent
              lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to
              change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory";
              "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn:
              {ardent}, {burning(a)}, {fervent}, {fervid}, {impassioned},
               {perfervid}, {torrid}]
       2: like or suggestive of fire; "the burning sand"; "a fiery
          desert wind"; "an igneous desert atmosphere" [syn: {igneous}]
       3: very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions" [syn: {flaming}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  212 Moby Thesaurus words for "fiery":
     Titian, Titian-red, abandoned, ablaze, accendible, afire, aflame,
     aglow, algetic, alight, angry, ardent, beany, blaring, blazing,
     boiling, boiling over, breathless, bricky, brilliant, broiling,
     burnable, burning, burning with excitement, cardinal, carmine,
     carnation, carnelian, cerise, chafed, cherry, cherry-colored,
     cherry-red, combustible, combustive, committed, conflagrant,
     conflagrative, cordial, crimson, damask, dedicated, delirious,
     devoted, devout, drunk, eager, earnest, edgy, emphatic,
     enthusiastic, excitable, excited, exciting, explosive, exuberant,
     faithful, fanatic, febrile, ferruginous, fervent, fervid,
     festering, fevered, feverish, feverous, fierce, fire-red, firelike,
     flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, flammable, flaring, flushed,
     furious, galled, glaring, gleaming, glowing, gules, hard-core,
     hasty, headlong, hearty, heated, hectic, het up, high-spirited,
     hot, hot-blooded, hot-tempered, hotheaded, hyperpyretic,
     hyperthermic, igneous, ignited, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive,
     in a fever, in earnest, in flames, in rut, incandescent,
     incarmined, inflamed, inflammable, infrared, intense, intent,
     intent on, intoxicated, irascible, iron-red, irritable, irritated,
     keen, lake-colored, laky, lateritious, lively, lobster-red, loyal,
     luminous, lurid, madcap, maroon, mettlesome, on fire, overheated,
     passionate, peppery, perfervid, port-wine, precipitate, provoking,
     puce, pyretic, pyric, quick, quick-tempered, radiant, rankling,
     raw, red, red-dyed, red-hot, red-looking, reddened, reddish,
     reddish-amber, reddish-brown, resolute, rubicund, rubiginous,
     rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy,
     rufescent, rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty, scalding, scarlet,
     scorching, seething, sensitive, serious, sexually excited,
     short-tempered, simmering, sincere, sizzling, smarting, sore,
     spirited, spunky, stammel, steaming, steamy, stimulating, stirring,
     stormy, tempestuous, tender, tile-red, tingling, tornadic, torrid,
     totally committed, touchy, unrestrained, urgent, vehement,
     vermilion, vigorous, vinaceous, violent, volcanic, warm, white-hot,
     wild, wine, wine-colored, wine-red, zealous
  
  

















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