Syn. -- Ferocious; savage; cruel; vehement; impetuous; barbarous; fell.
See Ferocious.
-- Fierce"ly, adv. -- Fierce"ness, n.
||Fi"e*ri fa"ci*as (?). [L., cause it to be done.] (Law) A judicial
||writ that lies for one who has recovered in debt or damages,
||commanding the sheriff that he cause to be made of the goods,
||chattels, or real estate of the defendant, the sum claimed.
||Blackstone. Cowell.
Fi"er*i*ness (?), n. The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony;
irritability; as, a fieriness of temper. Addison.
Fi"er*y (? or ?), a. [Formerly written firy, fr. fire.] 1. Consisting
of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a
fiery appearance.
And fiery billows roll below.