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Flambeau

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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Torch 76% connected

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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Acheron noun · 78% connection

A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed t…

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Ardent adjective · 78% connection

Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.

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Ball noun · 78% connection

A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produc…

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Batfowling noun · 78% connection

A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flyin…

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Brand verb · 78% connection

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

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Breakdown noun · 78% connection

A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of…

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Broach noun · 78% connection

The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.

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Collapse verb · 78% connection

To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (…

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Describe verb · 78% connection

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 wav…

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Dictator noun · 78% connection

One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited…

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Extinguisher noun · 78% connection

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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Flagrant adjective · 78% connection

Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.

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Flaming adjective · 78% connection

Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue.

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Flamingly adverb · 78% connection

In a flaming manner.

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Flamy adjective · 78% connection

Flaming; blazing; flamelike; flame-colored; composed of flame.

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Flaring adjective · 78% connection

That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light.

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Hippopotamus noun · 78% connection

A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a…

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Incremation noun · 78% connection

Burning; esp., the act of burning a dead body; cremation.

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