From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kindle \Kin'dle\, verb (used with an object) [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}.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kindling \Kin"dling\ (k[i^]n"dl[i^]ng), noun
1. The act of causing to burn, or of exciting or inflaming the passions.
2. Materials, easily lighted, for starting a fire, such as small twigs or paper; -- also used in the pl..
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: material for starting a fire [syn: {tinder}, {touchwood}, {spunk}, {punk}]
2: the act of setting on fire or catching fire [syn: {ignition}, {firing}, {lighting}, {inflammation}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
23 Moby Thesaurus words for "kindling": backlog, bavin, brush, brushwood, enkindling, fagot, firewood, firing, flammation, ignition, incendiary, inflaming, inflammation, inflammative, inflammatory, kindlings, lighting, lighting up, log, stovewood, wood, yule clog, yule log
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