LekhoriLekhoriThe visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.
Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth[…].
An aggressively insulting criticism or remark.
Flames are, unfortunately, a fact of USENET life. It's a rare USENET regular who hasn't been shaken to the foundations with anger at something some jerk has posted.
Of a brilliant reddish orange-gold colour, like that of a flame.
From Middle English flawme, blend of Old French flame and flambe, flamble, the first from Latin flamma, the second from Latin flammula, diminutive of flamma, both from pre-Latin *fladma; Proto-Italic ...
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He flamed with indignation.
To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).
I flamed him for spamming in my favourite newsgroup.