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INCENSE

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The pleasing scent produced when incense is burned

Example:

incense filled the room

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("incense" is a kind of...):

aroma; fragrance; perfume; scent (a distinctive odor that is pleasant)

Derivation:

incense (perfume especially with a censer)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("incense" is a kind of...):

chemical compound; compound ((chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight)

Meronyms (substance of "incense"):

stacte ((Old Testament) one of several sweet-smelling spices used in incense)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incense"):

joss stick (a slender stick of incense burned before a joss by the Chinese)

Derivation:

incense (perfume especially with a censer)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make furious

Synonyms:

exasperate; incense; infuriate

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "incense" is one way to...):

anger (make angry)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The bad news will incense him

The performance is likely to incense Sue

Sense 2

Meaning:

Perfume especially with a censer

Synonyms:

cense; incense; thurify

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "incense" is one way to...):

odorize; odourise; scent (cause to smell or be smelly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

incense (the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned)

incense (a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned)

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 Context examples: 

Here ensued a pause, filled up by the producing and lighting of a cigar; having placed it to his lips and breathed a trail of Havannah incense on the freezing and sunless air, he went on—I liked bonbons too in those days, Miss Eyre, and I was croquant—(overlook the barbarism)—croquant chocolate comfits, and smoking alternately, watching meantime the equipages that rolled along the fashionable streets towards the neighbouring opera-house, when in an elegant close carriage drawn by a beautiful pair of English horses, and distinctly seen in the brilliant city-night, I recognised the 'voiture' I had given Celine.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)