Fiery \Fi"er*y\ (? or ?), a. [Formerly written firy, fr. fire.]

1. Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.

And fiery billows roll below. --I. Watts.

2. Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.

Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails? --Shak.

The fiery spirit of his forefathers. --W. Irwing.

3. Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.

You know the fiery quality of the duke. --Shak.

4. Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.

One curbed the fiery steed. --Dryden.

5. heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish. --Pope.

The sword which is made fiery. --Hooker.

Fiery cross, a cross constructed of two firebrands, and pitched upon the point of a spear; formerly in Scotland borne by a runner as a signal for the clan to take up arms. --Sir W. Scott.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)