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Meanings of aflare in English

Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.

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      Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.

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            Usage of aflare in English
            1
            His own emblem, quivering and aflare, was winging toward the other.
            The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
            2
            Now the fire was low enough, but the room seemed aflare with myrtle tapers.
            Audrey
            3
            Drums beating, trumpets blowing, torches aflare, the English freebooter marched straight to the market.
            Vikings of the Pacific / The Adventures of the Explorers who Cam...
            4
            Above all, Chilhowee Mountain, aflare with the scarlet glow of its autumnal woods, touched the blue sky.
            The Frontiersmen
            5
            Morning dawned, aflare with light and color, as only a June morning in that semitropic wilderness could glow.
            Darkness and Dawn
            6
            The doors were aflare with flickering lights from within, and the unctuous smell of frying pork was on the air.
            The Ordeal: A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
            7
            The old chaplain stuck his pipe into his mouth and brought it aflare again with two or three strong indrawing respirations.
            The Lost Guidon / 1911
            8
            Thing was aflare in a moment!...
            The History of Mr. Polly
            Frequent collocations
            Aflare through the time