v. i. - To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
v. i. - To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
v. i. - To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
v. i. - To be exposed to too much light.
v. i. - To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.
n. - An unsteady, broad, offensive light.
n. - A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
n. - Leaf of lard.
n. - 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.