flame

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The zone of burning gases and fine suspended matter associated with rapid combustion; a hot, glowing mass of burning gas or vapor.
• noun The condition of active, blazing combustion.
• noun Something resembling a flame in motion, brilliance, intensity, or shape.
• noun A violent or intense passion.
• noun Informal A person that one has an intense passion for.
• noun Informal An insulting criticism or remark meant to incite anger, as on a computer network.
• intransitive verb To burn brightly; blaze.
• intransitive verb To color or flash suddenly.
• intransitive verb Informal To make insulting criticisms or remarks, as on a computer network, to incite anger.
• intransitive verb To burn, ignite, or scorch (something) with a flame.
• intransitive verb Informal To insult or criticize provokingly, as on a computer network.
• intransitive verb Obsolete To excite; inflame.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To hold in or pass through a flame, as an instrument, in order to sterilize it.
• To emit a flame; burst into flame; blaze.
• To shine like flame; glow with the brilliancy of flame; flash.
• To break out in violence of passion.
• To burn, as with a flame; singe; baste. See flamb, v.
• To inflame; hence, to excite.
• To cause to shine.
• In technical use, to subject to the action of fire or flame: scorch; singe.
• noun A blaze; vapor in combustion; hydrogen or any inflammable gas in a state of visible combustion.
• noun plural In heraldry, a conventional representation of fire, seldom borne as an independent bearing, but accompanying the phenix, the salamander, the fire-ball, and the like. When of any other tincture than gules, this must be mentioned in the blazon. Figuratively
• noun Brilliant light; scintillating luster; flame-like color or appearance.
• noun Heat or ardor of emotion or passion; warmth of feeling; specifically, the passion of love; ardent love.
• noun Angry or hostile excitement; burning animosity; contentious rage or strife.
• noun An object of the passion of love: as, she was my first flame.
• noun The gleam appearing at night from a school of herrings.
• noun The geometrid moth, Anticlea rubidata: a collectors' name.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.
• noun Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger.
• noun Ardor of affection; the passion of love.
• noun A person beloved; a sweetheart.
• noun a bridge wall. See Bridge, n., 5.
• noun brilliant orange or yellow.
• noun an early name for the gas engine.
• noun an instrument, invented by Koenig, to obtain graphic representation of the action of the human vocal organs. See Manometer.
• noun (Chem.) a method of testing for the presence of certain elements by the characteristic color imparted to a flame; as, sodium colors a flame yellow, potassium violet, lithium crimson, boracic acid green, etc. Cf. Spectrum analysis, under Spectrum.
• noun (Bot.) a tree with showy scarlet flowers, as the Rhododendron arboreum in India, and the Brachychiton acerifolium of Australia.
• transitive verb To kindle; to inflame; to excite.
• intransitive verb To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.
• intransitive verb To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The visible part of fire.
• noun A romantic partner or lover in usually short-lived but passionate affair.
• noun Internet Intentionally insulting criticism or remark meant to incite anger.
• noun A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour. flame colour:    
• noun music The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the curl.
• verb To produce flames.
• verb Internet To post a destructively critical or abusive message, especially to provoke dissent or controversy
• adjective Of a brilliant reddish orange-gold colour, like that of a flame.