Torches

noun
1.
a light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.
2.
something considered as a source of illumination, enlightenment, guidance, etc.:
the torch of learning.
3.
any of various lamplike devices that produce a hot flame and are used for soldering, burning off paint, etc.
4.
Slang. an arsonist.
5.
Chiefly British. flashlight (def 1).
verb (used without object)
6.
to burn or flare up like a torch.
verb (used with object)
7.
to subject to the flame or light of a torch, as in order to burn, sear, solder, or illuminate.
8.
Slang. to set fire to maliciously, especially in order to collect insurance.
Idioms
9.
carry the / a torch for, Slang. to be in love with, especially to suffer from unrequited love for:
He still carries a torch for his ex-wife.
verb (used with object)
1.
to point (the joints between roofing slates) with a mixture of lime and hair.
noun
1.
a small portable electric lamp powered by one or more dry batteries US and Canadian word flashlight
2.
a wooden or tow shaft dipped in wax or tallow and set alight
3.
anything regarded as a source of enlightenment, guidance, etc: the torch of evangelism
4.
any apparatus that burns with a hot flame for welding, brazing, or soldering
5.
carry a torch for, to be in love with, esp unrequitedly
6.
put to the torch, to set fire to; burn down: the looted monastery was put to the torch
verb
7.
(transitive) (slang) to set fire to, esp deliberately as an act of arson
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On the night of his betrayal, when our Lord was in the garden of Gethsemane, Judas, “having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons” (John 18:1-3). Although it was the time of full moon, yet in the valley of the Kidron “there fell great, deep shadows from the declivity of the mountain and projecting rocks; there were there caverns and grottos, into which a fugitive might retreat; finally, there were probably a garden-house and tower, into whose gloom it might be necessary for a searcher to throw light around.” Lange’s Commentary. (Nahum 2:3, “torches,” Revised Version, “steel,” probably should be “scythes” for war-chariots.)