Flare /(flâr)/

imp. & p. p. Flared; p. pr. & vb. n. Flaring

1. To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
2. To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
3. To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.

   With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head.

4. To be exposed to too much light. [Obs.]

   Flaring in sunshine all the day.

5. To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.

1. An unsteady, broad, offensive light.
2. A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
3. A defect in a photographic objective such that an image of the stop, or diaphragm, appears as a fogged spot in the center of the developed negative. (Photog.)

1. Leaf of lard.