Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who bears flame or light.
- noun A book-name of humming-birds of the genus Selasphorus.
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A hundred years later, the Welsh poems seem to say, Ida "the flame-bearer," fought his way down from a petty principality on the Forth, and occupied the whole
Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873
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