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.
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. 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.
