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Torch   /tɔrtʃ/   Listen
Torch

noun
1.
A light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance.
2.
Tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches.  Synonyms: Aaron's rod, common mullein, flannel mullein, great mullein, Verbascum thapsus, woolly mullein.
3.
A small portable battery-powered electric lamp.  Synonym: flashlight.
4.
A burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame.  Synonyms: blowlamp, blowtorch.
verb
1.
Burn maliciously, as by arson.



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"Torch" Quotes from Famous Books



... regretted a single moment of the dreaming and love-making, a single penny of the eighty and odd dollars that had enabled them fittingly to embower their romance, to twine myrtle in their hair and to provide Cupid's torch-bowls with fragrant incense. Still—with the battle not begun, there gaped that deep, wide hollow in ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... manner in which the struggle is to be carried on," remarked Fred, "be assured that you will fail in your endeavors to obtain justice. No cause ever yet prospered where the torch of an incendiary was invoked to burn and destroy wantonly. Hearts that sympathize with you now would soon become alienated, and turn to the ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes
... the Red Tower, which looked towards the court-yard, I saw the whole array come in. I watched the prisoners unceremoniously dismounted and huddled together against the coming of the Duke. There was but one man among them who stood erect. The torch-light played on his face, which was sometimes bent down to a little child in his arms, so that I saw him well. He looked not at all upon the rude men-at-arms who pushed and bullied about him, but continued tenderly to hush his charge, as if ...
— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... three hundred years, such a child is born to the world as Margaret's son, lo! a human torch lighted by fire from heaven; and "FIAT LUX" thunder's ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... cheek to pale, and every heart to sink with fear. The enemy shall provision our army, and forage our horses. We will take possession of their magazines, stores, and shambles; and to every house that refuses us gold, we will apply the devouring torch. Thus we will make it impossible for the emperor to advance to Lorraine; and the wide desert that intervenes between ...
— Prince Eugene and His Times • L. Muhlbach


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