a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance
tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
[ Syn: common mullein , great mullein , aarons rod , flannel mullein , woolly mullein , verbascum thapsus ]
a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
[ Syn: flashlight ]
a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame
torch (n.)
burn maliciously, as by arson; The madman torched the barns'