| incendiary | (adj) involving deliberate burning of property, Example: an incendiary fire |
| incendiary | (adj) arousing to action or rebellion, Syn. rabble-rousing, seditious, instigative, inflammatory, incitive |
| incendiary | (adj) capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily, Example: an incendiary agent; incendiary bombs |
| incendiary bomb | (n) a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel), Syn. firebomb, incendiary |
| incense | (n) a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned |
| incense | (n) the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned, Example: incense filled the room |
| incense cedar | (n) any of several attractive trees of southwestern South America and New Zealand and New Caledonia having glossy evergreen leaves and scented wood |
| incense cedar | (n) tall tree of the Pacific coast of North America having foliage like cypress and cinnamon-red bark, Syn. Libocedrus decurrens, Calocedrus decurrens, red cedar |
| incense tree | (n) any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense |
| incense wood | (n) fragrant wood of two incense trees of the genus Protium |
| Incend | v. t. [ L. incendere, incensum, to kindle, burn. See Incense to inflame. ] To inflame; to excite. [ Obs. ] Marston. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Incendiarism | n. [ From Incendiary. ] The act or practice of maliciously setting fires; arson. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Incendiary | a. [ L. incendiarius, fr. incendium a fire, conflagration: cf. F. incendiaire. See Incense to inflame. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Incendiary | n.; Several cities . . . drove them out as incendiaries. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Incendious | a. [ L. incendiosus burning, hot. ] Promoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory. [ Obs. ] Bacon. -- |
| Incensant | a. [ See Incense to anger. ] (Her.) A modern term applied to animals (as a boar) when borne as raging, or with furious aspect. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Incensation | n. (R. C. Ch.) The offering of incense. [ R. ] Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Incense | v. t. Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense The people are incensed him. Shak. |
| Incense | v. t. |
| Incense | n. [ OE. encens, F. encens, L. incensum, fr. incensus, p. p. of incendere to burn. See Incense to inflame. ] [ 1913 Webster ] A thick cloud of incense went up. Ezek. viii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ] Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon. Lev. x. 1. [ 1913 Webster ] Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride,
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