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The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.
a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery.
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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.
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A race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands. He who reached the goal first, with his torch unextinguished, gained the prize.
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To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand.
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The light of a torch, or of torches. Also adjectively; as, a torchlight procession.
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A torch.
v. t.
To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.
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Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.
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One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch.
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A boy or man that carried a link or torch to light passengers.
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Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.
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The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.
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A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.
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One whose office it is to carry a torch.
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The common mullein, the stalks of which, dipped in suet, anciently served for torches. Called also torch, and hig-taper.
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A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch.
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A flashlight.
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In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself.
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One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle.
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