Noun
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a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame
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a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
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tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers
ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
- common mullein - great mullein - aaron's rod - flannel mullein - woolly mullein - verbascum thapsus -
a light usually carried in the hand
consists of some flammable substance
Verb
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burn maliciously, as by arson
"The madman torched the barns"