Crossword clues for kindling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kindling \Kin"dling\ (k[i^]n"dl[i^]ng), n.
The act of causing to burn, or of exciting or inflaming the passions.
Materials, easily lighted, for starting a fire, such as small twigs or paper; -- also used in the pl..
Kindle \Kin`dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Kindled; p. pr. & vb. n. Kindling.] [Icel. kyndill candle, torch; prob. fr. L. candela; cf. also Icel. kynda to kindle. Cf. Candle.]
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To set on fire; to cause to burn with flame; to ignite; to cause to begin burning; to start; to light; as, to kindle a match, or shavings.
His breath kindleth coals.
--Job xii. 21. -
Fig.: To inflame, as the passions; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; to incite; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame.
So is a contentious man to kindle strife.
--Prov. xxvi. 21.Nothing remains but that I kindle the boy thither.
--Shak.Kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
--Milton.Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
--Dryden.Syn: Enkindle; light; ignite; inflame; provoke; excite; arouse; stir up.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"material for lighting fire," 1510s, from present participle of kindle (v.). Earlier "a setting alight" (c.1300).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire. 2 The act by which something is kindled. vb. (present participle of kindle English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Kindling is material for firelighting
Kindling may also refer to:
- Kindling (album), a 1973 album by Gene Parsons
- Kindling (film), a 1915 film by Cecil B. DeMille
- Kindling (Mick Farren novel)
- Ruined City (novel) or Kindling, a novel by Nevil Shute
- Kindling (substance withdrawal), a process by which each subsequent withdrawal episode produces a more severe withdrawal syndrome
- Kindling, a campus humor magazine for North Central College
Kindling is the debut solo album by Country rock musician Gene Parsons recorded in 1973. Guest musicians on this album include former Byrds bandmate Clarence White, plus Vassar Clements, Ralph Stanley, Bill Payne, and Gib Guilbeau.
Kindling is a 1915 American drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Charlotte Walker, in her film debut. The film is based on a 1911 Broadway play by Charles A. Kenyon which starred Margaret Illington and was produced by her husband Major Bowes, later of radio fame.
Kindling is the first novel in the Flame of Evil series written by Mick Farren, featuring The Four: a mythical group of young adults with supernatural powers. Its first edition was published in August 2004, and its first mass-market edition in February 2004.
Kindling due to substance withdrawal refers to the neurological condition which results from repeated withdrawal episodes from sedative- hypnotic drugs such as alcohol or benzodiazepines. Each withdrawal leads to more severe withdrawal symptoms than the previous withdrawal syndrome. Individuals who have had more withdrawal episodes are at an increased risk of very severe withdrawal symptoms, up to and including seizures, and death. Withdrawal from GABAergic acting sedative-hypnotic drugs causes acute GABA-underactivity as well as glutamate overactivity which can lead to sensitization and hyper-excitability of the central nervous system, excito-neurotoxicity, and increasingly profound neuroadaptions.
Usage examples of "kindling".
At one time I would think of devoting all my intelligence and all my money to kindling an amorous passion in her heart, and then to revenge myself by treating her with contempt.
He rubbed the engraved opal that was the bezel of the ring and it began to glow like a brightening ember, smoky crimson shot with livid green at first, then kindling to a vivid scarlet.
The cellar of the Haunted Bookshop was, to Bock, a fascinating place, illuminated by a warm glow from the furnace, and piled high with split packing-cases which Roger used as kindling.
The others, Dees included, were so much kindling to be thrown into the fire.
Rising wearily from the box he set about to collect some sticks of kindling wood, an action that sent Dopey into ecstasies of excitement.
John as kindling, while the Hive Queen and the Hegemon was tenderly wrapped in leaves.
I had conceived that kindling spark, the way that I must follow became lighted up from end to end.
At times of public calamities and distress, the practice of kindling needfire was resorted to.
Though the rolling sands were still swathed in night shadow, the moons were already dropping behind the horizon, and Tatoo I was kindling a golden gleam along the crest of the highest dunes.
He set out at moonrise, traveling along the batture with his two sacks of kindling.
Kindling with mingled sounds, and many tones, Intelligible words and music wild.
Was the Blackwater family of the Narwhal Clan intent on kindling war between the Six Duchies and the Out Islands?
Faint phosphene speckles swam through the eddies and peaks, weaving in and out of the thicker ammonia-laden braids, their light ebbing and kindling in hesitant patterns.
Giliead grumbled from the opening as he tossed in an armload of fallen branches and kindling, and Tremaine, distracted by the idea of a fire and hot food, mentally put the wall aside for the moment.
With quiet dignity, Joscelin gathered up his armload of kindling and continued into the kitchen.