Fi·er·y a.
 1. Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.
    And fiery billows roll below.   --I. Watts.
 2. Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.
    Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails?   --Shak.
    The fiery spirit of his forefathers.   --W. Irwing.
 3. Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.
    You know the fiery quality of the duke.   --Shak.
 4. Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
    One curbed the fiery steed.   --Dryden.
 5. heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish.
    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.

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