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Definition of Censer

Censer
Censer Cen"ser, n. [For incenser, fr. OF. encensier, F. encensoir, fr. LL. incensarium, incensorium, fr. L. incensum incense. See Incense, and cf. Incensory.] A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned. Note: The ecclesiastical censer is usually cup-shaped, has a cover pierced with holes, and is hung by chains. The censer bearer swings it to quicken the combustion. Her thoughts are like the fume of frankincense Which from a golden censer forth doth rise. --Spenser.

Meaning of Censer from wikipedia

- A censer, incense burner, perfume burner or pastille burner is a vessel made for burning incense or perfume in some solid form. They vary greatly in size...
- The Tiangong censer (Chinese: 天公爐; pinyin: tian gong lu) is a distinctive type of incense burner traditionally used in the religious veneration of the...
- household with a hand censer. Orthodox priest and deacon making the Entrance with the censer at Great Vespers An Eastern Orthodox censer, gold with four chains...
- include censers shaped to look like birds or animals, small "scenting globes" (xiangqiu 香球), and hand-held censers (shoulu 手爐). Very large censers, sometimes...
- poles in place (Numbers 4:13–14). After the rebellion of Korah, the bronze censers that were used by the rebels were converted by Eleazar into broad plates...
- hill censer or boshanlu (博山爐 "universal mountain censer" or boshan xianglu 博山香爐) is a type of Chinese censer used for burning incense. Hill censers first...
- Maurice Censer (also Marcel Censer; 20 September 1889 – 10 December 1956) was a Belgian chess player. Maurice Censer was one of Belgium's leading chess...
- Jane Turner Censer is a professor emeritus of history and an author in the United States. She has written about Southern women and aut****d a book about...
- Isidore Censer (14 February 1898 – 23 March 1973) was a Belgian chess player. Isidore Censer was one of Belgium's leading chess players in the late 1920s...
- golden sheen. The Santiago de Compostela Botafumeiro is one of the largest censers in the world, weighing 80 kg and measuring 1.93 m in height. It is normally...