Definition of incense

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Incense (n.) The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.

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Onycha :: Onycha (n.) An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus..
Frankincense :: Frankincense (n.) A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified..
Inflame :: Inflame (v. t.) To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
Incense :: Incense (v. t.) To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.
Staddle :: Stacte (n.) One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in the preparation of incense. It was perhaps an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax..
Ship :: Ship (n.) A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
Thuriferous :: Thuriferous (a.) Producing or bearing frankincense.
Incenser :: Incenser (n.) One who instigates or incites.
Incensed :: Incensed (imp. & p. p.) of Incens.
Incensement :: Incensement (n.) Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement..
Encense :: Encense (n.) To offer incense to or upon; to burn incense.
Incensed :: Incensed (a.) Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes..
Incense :: Incense (n.) To perfume with, or as with, incense..
Censer :: Censer (n.) A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.
Olibanum :: Olibanum (n.) The fragrant gum resin of various species of Boswellia; Oriental frankincense.
Incensory :: Incensory (n.) The vessel in which incense is burned and offered; a censer; a thurible.
Thus :: Thus (n.) The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers..
Provoke :: Provoke (v. t.) To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate..
Thurible :: Thurible (n.) A censer of metal, for burning incense, having various forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains; -- used especially at mass, vespers, and other solemn services..
Irate :: Irate (a.) Angry; incensed; enraged.
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