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A lamp which gives light (3) Ardor or warmth of affection; the pa ion of gaseous hydrocarbon, or an incandescent electric love. "Since your beautiful maid your flame has repaid, No more I your folly regret." Byron: To the Sighing Strephon. (4) Ardor or warmth of imagination or fancy; vigor of thought. "Great are their faults and glorious is their flame." Waller: Prologue to Maid's Tragedy. (5) The object of one's affection; one beloved; a sweetheart. I suppose she was an old flame of the Colonel's." Thackeray: New comes, ch. xxii. II. Chem.: Gas or vapor raised to so high a temperature that it becomes luminous; the higher the temperature and the denser the gas, the brighter the flame. This brightne may be increased by the presence of a foreign body, as in the case of the lime-light. Crabb thus discriminates between flame, blaze, flash, flare , and glare : " Flame signifies the lum i nous exhalation emitted from fire. Blaze signifies a flame blown up, that is, an extended flame . Flash and flare , which are but variations of flame , denote different species of flame ; the former a sudden flame , the second a dazzling, unsteady flame . Glare , which is a variation of glow, denotes a glowing, a that is, a strong flame , that emits a strong candle burns only by flame , paper commonly by a blaze , gunpowder by a flash , a torch by a flare , and a conflagration by a glare ." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) flame-bearer, s. 1. Ord. Lang.: One who or that which bears or carries a light. 2. Ornith .: The English rendering of Selasphorus , a genus of Trochil ide (Humming Birds), with fiery red feathers round their necks. They are small birds from tropical America. *flame-bolt, s. A thunder-bolt. flame-bridge, s . A wall rising from the floor of a furnace to cause the flame to impinge upon the bottom of the boiler.