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n. A portable light produced by the flame of a stick of resinous wood or of a flammable material wound about the end of a stick of wood; a flambeau.

n. Chiefly British A flashlight.

n. Something that serves to illuminate, enlighten, or guide.

n. Slang An arsonist.

n. A portable apparatus that produces a very hot flame by the combustion of gases, used in welding and construction.

v. Slang To cause to burn or undergo combustion, especially with extraordinary rapidity, force, or thoroughness.

n. A stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source; a similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material.

n. A portable light source powered by electricity; a flashlight.

v. To set fire to, especially by use of a torch (flaming stick).

n. A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.

n. A similar torch used in plumbing, gas-fitting, electric-wiring, etc., for giving a heating flame wherever a condensed hot flame is required. It is made in many forms. Where air-pressure is used it is called a gasolene blow-torch. It is sometimes used as a paint-burner

n. A lamplighters' torch using gasolene.

n. A light to be carried in the hand, formed of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax, hemp, etc., soaked with tallow or other inflammable substance; a link; a flambeau.

n. An oil-lamp borne on a pole or other appliance for carrying a light easily and without danger.

To fish with the aid of a torch by night.

To flare or smoke like a torch; rise like the smoke from a torch: with up: as, how those clouds torch up!

In plastering, to point with lime and hair: said of the inside joints of slating laid on lathing.

v. burn maliciously, as by arson

n. tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches

n. a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance

n. a small portable battery-powered electric lamp

n. a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame

"It seems to me that the "torch" is being handed off to Esser, and there really is, right now, no real competition."

torched    torches    torching   

burn down    burn    fire    velvet plant    flannel leaf    mullein   

flying torch    plumbers' torch    alcohol torch    gasolene torch    inverted torch    headlamp    handlamp   

carry a torch for   

link    brand    flambeau    mussal    lampion    light   

porch    scorch   

lantern    lamp    flashlight    flare    flame    knife    lance    blaze    spark    gun