Fiery vs Finery - What's the difference?
fiery | finery |
Of or relating to fire.
Burning or glowing.
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, chapter=1, title= Inflammable or easily ignited.
Having the colour of fire.
Hot or inflamed.
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, chapter=5, title= Tempestuous or emotionally volatile.
Spirited or filled with emotion.
(obsolete) Fineness; beauty.
Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
(ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
* 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 160:
As an adjective fiery
is of or relating to fire.As a noun finery is
(obsolete) fineness; beauty.fiery
English
Adjective
(en-adj)Internal Combustion, passage=Blast after blast, fiery' outbreak after ' fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
Derived terms
* fiery crossAnagrams
* *finery
English
Noun
- In front of the finery hearth in which the sow is melted down again, the finer is working with a long iron bar called a ringer (from French 'ringard') with which he keeps the molten iron in motion by stirring, an essential stage in the process of refining.