torch

Noun

• a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame

• a small portable battery-powered electric lamp

• tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches

• a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance

Verb

• burn maliciously, as by arson
  • The madman torched the barns
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  blowtorch , blowlamp , flashlight , common mullein , great mullein , Aaron's rod , flannel mullein , woolly mullein , Verbascum thapsus