Fiery

[From fire, q. v.] Consisting of fire; hot, like fire; as, a fiery gulf. -Vehement; ardent; active; unrestrained; as, a fiery steed. - Easily provoked; irritable; pa ionate; outrageous; as, the fiery duke.Heated by fire; as, "a fiery wound." -Pope. Fi'ery-chamber, n. ( Hist.) See CHAMBRE ARDENTE. Fi'ery-cro , n. The rallying symbol of the Highlanders of Scotland in any sudden emergency. It was also called Crantara, from the Gael. Crean tarigh (the cro of shame), because disobedience to what the symbol implied was considered infamous. Fi'ery-footed, a . Eager for motion; swift in motion; as, "a fiery - footed team."-Spenser. Fieschi, JOSEPH, ( fe - es'ke ,) a Corsican, and the author of one of the most terrible conspiracies of which history has preserved the remembrance. Having conceived a hatred for the French king, Louis Philippe, in consequence of the deprivation, by the prefect of the Seine, of a situation which he held, he constructed an infernal machine of about 100 gun-barrels fixed in a frame, which he discharged simultaneously, by means of a train of gunpowder, from a house in the Boulevard-du-Temple, during a review of the National Guard, July 28, 1835. The king escaped unhurt, but Marshal Mortier and 17 people were killed, and many more wounded. F. , with his accomplices, Pepin and Morey, was guillotined, Feb. 16, 1836. Fies'co Conspiracy. ( Hist .) Giovanni Luigi Fiesco, Count of Lavagna, disliking the republican government established at Genoa by the Admiral Andrew Doria, formed a plot for his a a ination and the establishment of an oligarchy. The insurrection took place Jan. 2, 1547, when Doria was compelled to flee, and his grandnephew Giannetino was put to death; but the leader. F. , at the commencement of the outbreak, slipped while stepping from a galley, and being overweighed by his armor, sank in the waves and perished. Fiesole, ( fē - a - sõʻla ,) (anc. Fasulæ ,) in antiquity, a considerable city of Etruria, now a small though celebrated town of Central Italy, prov. Florence, on a precipitously steep hill commanding a fine view of the Val d'Arno , 4 m. N.E. of Florence. It is dotted with many beautiful villas belonging to the Florentine citizens. After the fall of Etruria, F. was colonized by the Romans under Sylla, and in 1010 was destroyed by the Florentines. Pop . 3,887.