Definition of incense

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Incense (n.) The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc..

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Sweet :: Sweet (superl.) Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense..
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..
Incensement :: Incensement (n.) Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement..
Incense :: Incense (n.) Also used figuratively.
Wrathful :: Wrathful (a.) Full of wrath; very angry; greatly incensed; ireful; passionate; as, a wrathful man..
Incensed :: Incensed (a.) Angered; enraged.
Incensation :: Incensation (n.) The offering of incense.
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..
Incense :: Incense (n.) The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc..
Fume :: Fume (n.) The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
Thurification :: Thurification (n.) The act of fuming with incense, or the act of burning incense..
Wroth :: Wroth (a.) Full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful.
Pachak :: Pachak (n.) The fragrant roots of the Saussurea Costus, exported from India to China, and used for burning as incense. It is supposed to be the costus of the ancients..
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..
Thuriferous :: Thuriferous (a.) Producing or bearing frankincense.
Incensed :: Incensed (a.) Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes..
Incense :: Incense (v. t.) To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.
Inflame :: Inflame (v. i.) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed..
Olibene :: Olibene (n.) A colorless mobile liquid of a pleasant aromatic odor obtained by the distillation of olibanum, or frankincense, and regarded as a terpene; -- called also conimene..
Cense :: Cense (v. i.) To burn or scatter incense.
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