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Definition of Flamelike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flamelike
Literary usage of Flamelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Electrical Engineer (1893)
"After many tests had been made in vain, the dynamo was again started, and after
half an hour's run the heavy flamelike sparking was repeated. ..."
2. Attic Grave Reliefs That Represent Women in the Dress of Isis by Elizabeth J. Walters (1988)
"91 The flamelike fringe is characteristic of contemporary statues of Isis in Asia
Minor and North Africa; see pp. 81-82 above. ..."
3. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1846)
"Hence its compound the crop partakes of the same character—it is flamelike or
vegetative— (fig. 17); and so is as distinct as possible, in its idea, ..."
4. Ophthalmology; Essays, Abstracts and Reviews. edited by Henry Vanderbilt Würdemann, Nelson Miles Black (1906)
"It had a greenish-white color, characteristic luster and a radial striation,
terminating flamelike. Within the patch a branch of a large vein was visible, ..."
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