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To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices. The Salii sing and cense his altars round. Dryden.

A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.

To offer incense to or upon; to burn incense. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unident…

to inflame; to kindle; to burn. [Obs.] Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense Thy glorious heap of funeral. Chapman.

Breathing or exhaling incense. "Incense-breathing morn." Gray.

Angered; enraged.

Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak.

One who instigates or incites.

business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors. To have a license and a leave at London to dwell. P. Plowman.

Having a license; permitted or authorized by license; as, a licensed victualer; a licensed traffic. Licensed victualer, one who has a license to keep an in or eating house; esp., a victualer who has a license to sell intoxicating liquors.

The person to whom a license is given.

One who gives a license; as, a licenser of the press.

To review; to revise. [R.] Bentley.

To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.

License; indulgence. [Obs.] Locke.

re (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity. Noah builded an altar unto the Lord. Gen. viii. 20.

A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent.

A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.

An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]