cen·ser /ˈsɛn(t)sɚ/
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 Cen·ser n.  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.
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 censer
      n : a container for burning incense (especially one that is
          swung on a chain in a religious ritual) [syn: thurible]
 Censer
    the vessel in which incense was presented on "the golden altar"
    before the Lord in the temple (Ex. 30:1-9). The priest filled
    the censer with live coal from the sacred fire on the altar of
    burnt-offering, and having carried it into the sanctuary, there
    threw upon the burning coals the sweet incense (Lev. 16:12, 13),
    which sent up a cloud of smoke, filling the apartment with
    fragrance. The censers in daily use were of brass (Num. 16:39),
    and were designated by a different Hebrew name, _miktereth_ (2
    Chr. 26:19; Ezek. 8:11): while those used on the day of
    Atonement were of gold, and were denoted by a word (mahtah)
    meaning "something to take fire with;" LXX. pureion = a
    fire-pan. Solomon prepared for the temple censers of pure gold
    (1 Kings 7:50; 2 Chr. 4:22). The angel in the Apocalypse is
    represented with a golden censer (Rev. 8:3, 5). Paul speaks of
    the golden censer as belonging to the tabernacle (Heb. 9:4). The
    Greek word thumiaterion, here rendered "censer," may more
    appropriately denote, as in the margin of Revised Version, "the
    altar of incense." Paul does not here say that the thumiaterion
    was in the holiest, for it was in the holy place, but that the
    holiest had it, i.e., that it belonged to the holiest (1 Kings
    6:22). It was intimately connected with the high priest's
    service in the holiest.
      The manner in which the censer is to be used is described in
    Num. 4:14; Lev. 16:12.