Definition for FI'ER-I-NESS

FI'ER-I-NESS, n. [See Fiery, Fire.]

  1. The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; the quality of a substance that excites a sensation of heat. Boyle.
  2. Heat of temper; irritability; as, fieriness of temper. Addison.

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