From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light.
His [the sun's] flaring beams. --Milton.
2. Opening or speading outwards.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flare \Flare\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Flared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flaring}.] [Cf. Norw. flara to blaze, flame, adorn with tinsel, dial. Sw. flasa upp, and E. flash, or flacker.]
1. To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
2. To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
3. To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head. --Shak.
4. To be exposed to too much light. [Obs.]
Flaring in sunshine all the day. --Prior.
5. 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: having a gradual increase in width; "flared nostrils"; "a skirt flaring from the waist" [syn: {flared}]
2: streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her"; "flying banners"; "flags waving in the breeze" [syn: {aflare}, {flying}, {waving}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "flaring": ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, blatant, blazing, blinding, brazen, brazenfaced, burning, candent, candescent, colorful, comburent, conflagrant, crude, deltoid, extravagant, fan-shape, fan-shaped, fanlike, fanned, fanning, fiery, flabelliform, flagrant, flaming, flared, flashing, flashy, flaunting, flickering, fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, garish, gaudy, glaring, glowing, gorgeous, guttering, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, kindled, live, living, loud, lurid, meretricious, meteoric, obtrusive, on fire, open, outspread, outstretched, overbright, patulous, raw, reeking, scintillant, scintillating, screaming, sensational, shameless, shrieking, smoking, smoldering, sparking, spectacular, splay, splayed, splaying, spraddled, spraddling, sprangled, sprangling, sprawling, sprawly, spread, spreading, stretched-out, tawdry, unextinguished, unfolded, unquenched, vulgar, wide-open, widespread
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