Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The vessel in which incense is burned; a censer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The vessel in which incense is burned and offered; a censer; a thurible.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun thurible, censer

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Examples

  • Gukumatz, all names meaning this), represented as carrying his medicine bag, _xiquipilli_, and incensory, the apparatus of the native illuminati, his robe marked with the sign of the cross to show that he was Lord of the Four Winds and of Life. [

    Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

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