American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - n. A portable light produced by the flame of a stick
of resinous wood or of a flammable material wound about the end
of a stick of wood; a flambeau. - n. Chiefly British A
flashlight. - n. Something that serves to illuminate, enlighten,
or guide. - n. Slang An arsonist. - n. A portable apparatus that
produces a very hot flame by the combustion of gases, used in
welding and construction. - v. Slang To cause to burn or undergo
combustion, especially with extraordinary rapidity, force, or
thoroughness. Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - n. A similar
torch used in plumbing, gas-fitting, electric-wiring, etc., for
giving a heating flame wherever a condensed hot flame is
required. It is made in many forms. Where air-pressure is used
it is called a gasolene blow-torch. It is sometimes used as a
paint-burner - n. A lamplighters' torch using gasolene. - n. A
light to be carried in the hand, formed of some combustible
substance, as resinous wood,