单词 | to put to flames |
释义 | > as lemmasto put to flames b. with plural: A portion of ignited vapour, often spire-like or tongue-like. †to put to flames: to set on fire. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > flame or blaze > a flame steamc1300 flamea1340 open flame1861 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxviii. [xxix.] 7 Þe voice of lord sherand þe flaume of fire. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvii. 239 Þe weyke and fyre wil make a warme flaumbe. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xlviii. l. 174 Fir and flambes they Casten Echedel vppon Moys there that he sat. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxiv. 221 His vysage became lyke a flame of fyer. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12009 Flammes of fyre fuerse to behold. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 139 Thrice to the vaulted Roof the Flames aspire. View more context for this quotation 1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. iv. 272 The flames ascended above my head. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 245 The acid burns with a blue flame. 1874 J. Morley On Compromise 13 The sky of Paris was red with the incendiary flames of the Commune. < as lemmas |
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