aflame

i. [Eng. a = on; flame (q.v.).] To flame. * a-flā-ming, pr. par. & a. [AFLAME.] p. 291. the a flaming fire."- Appendix to W. Mapes, a-flat', adv. [Eng. a = on; flat.] Flat, level with the ground. take a low tree and bow it, and lay all his branches aflat upon the ground."-Bacon: Nat. Hist., Cent. V., § 426. [Eng. aon; flaunt.] a-flaunt', adv. Dre ed or equipped in a showy manner. "He sayled all qhaunt ." Herring: Tale , 1598, ( Hall i well .) "A merie gentleman, seeing a gallant that was bound for the Indies wal Indies walk the streets, reets, his hat all a flaunt, and be feathered with all kinds of coloured plumes, said..."- Copley : Wits, Fits , and Fancies (1614), p. 29. *a-flee' (pret. afled), v.i. =to flee.] To flee, to escape. "He shoke his eares [A.S. fleon, flion And from grete feares He thought hym well aflce." Sir Thos. More: Workes (1557).