ppl. a. [f. FLAME v. and sb. + -ED1, 2.]
1. Aflame, burning.
1413. Lydg., Pilgr. Sowle, III. viii. (Caxton, 1483), 55. I sawe a furnoys brennynge alle flammed with fyre, and al aboutes in euery side therof, many fowle assembles of ful lothely ghoostes.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 54.
| The pertlyke | |
| Greeks thee flamd citty with ruthlesse victorye ransack. |
1634. Habington, Castara (Arb.), 61.
| Yet perhaps as thou flew’st by, | |
| A flamed dart shot from her eye, | |
| Sing’d thy wings with wanton fire, | |
| Whence th’art forc’t to hover nigh her. |
2. Furnished with flames.
1851. E. J. Millington, trans. Didron’s Christian Iconography, I. 452. Not only are angels figured with wings on their shoulders, but sometimes place on wheels figurative of swiftness, or upon wheels which are both winged and flamed, and thus made to express the extreme of velocity.
3. Of a tulip: Bearing flame-like marks.
1665–76. Ray, Flora, 94. Saffron … Flowers … are of three principal colours, white, purple, and yellow, deeper and lighter, bigger and smaller, and some striped, feathered, or flamed.
1846. J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4), I. 302. A Tulip, is called flamed, when a broad irregular stripe runs up the middle of the petals, with short abrupt projecting points, branching out on each side.
