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Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen. German tinder. Same as Amadou. -- Tinder box, a box in which tinder is kept.

Inflammation of the tonsil; quinsy. [Written also, and more usually, tonsillitis.]

or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame. They light the nuptial torch. Milton. Torch thistle. (Bot.) See under Thistle.

The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.

Inflammation of the trachea, or windpipe.

A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.

ulous boiler, a steam boiler composed chiefly of tubes containing water and surrounded by flame and hot gases; -- sometimes distinguished from tubular boiler.

are put in. -- Tunnel kiln, a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used. -- Tunnel net, a net with a wide mouth at one end and narrow at the other. -- Tunnel pit, Tunnel shaft, a pit or shaft sunk from the top of the ground to the level of a tunnel, for draw…

to twist bays with that ivy." Waller. There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame. T. Burnet.

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the middle ear.

Inflammation of the cæcum.

To peep under. "The flame . . . would underpeep her lids." [R.] Shak.

Inflammation of the ureter. Dunglison.

Inflammation of the urethra.

Inflammation of the uvula.

Inflammation of the vagina, or the genital canal, usually of its mucous living membrane.

as grape seeds or cherry stones, sometimes lodge in it, causing serious, or even fatal, inflammation. See Illust. under Digestion.

To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister. Wiseman.

Inflammation of a vesicle.

Watchfulness in respect of danger; care; caution; circumspection. Cowper. And flaming ministers to watch and tend Their earthly charge; of these the vigilance I dread. Milton.