Flare

Definition of Flare

v. i.

To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.

[imp. & p. p. Flared ; p. pr. & vb. n. Flaring.]

To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.

To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.

With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head.

- Shak.

To be exposed to too much light.

Flaring in sunshine all the day.

- Prior.

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. - Thackeray.

An unsteady, broad, offensive light.

A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.

(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.

Leaf of lard.

Related Words

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