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flare

flare is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 7 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
  2. 2.To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy. With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head. Shak.
  3. 3.To be exosed to too much light. [Obs.] Flaring in sunshine all the day. Prior.
  4. 4.To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare. To flare up, to become suddenly heated or excited; to burst into a passion. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
  5. 5.An unsteady, broad, offensive light.
  6. 6.A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
  7. 7.Leaf of lard. "Pig's flare." Dunglison.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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