a. Now rare. [f. L. flamme-us (f. flamma flame) + -OUS.]
1. Of the nature of flame.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 45. The Sun is nothing else but an inanimate and unintelligent masse of flammeous matter.
1686. Goad, Celest. Bodies, II. vii. 245. Comets are Flammeous, or Lucid Expirations, which are produced by the Planets.
1775. in Ash.
2. Resembling flame or its attributes; flame-like; hence, shining, resplendent.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. xxv. 177. This flammeous light [of the Glow-worme] is not over all the body, but only visible on the inward side; in a small white part near the tail.
1672. Phil. Trans., VII. 4071. The flammeous Life of the Bloud.
1728. Earbery, trans. Burnet’s St. Dead, II. 33–4. The Glory of the Person of Christ is more than once described in the Apocalypse, as Lucid and Flammeous.
3. Flame-colored.
1656–81. Blount, Glossogr., Flammeous, somewhat coloured like a flame of fire.
1867. A. L. Adams, Wand. Nat. India, 113. The flammeous flycatcher (Pericrocotus flammeus) represents a genus of beautiful birds. the males differ very much from the females in colouring. While red is the prevailing hue of the former, the same parts are yellow in the other sex.
