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countable and uncountable, plural kindlings
Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire. quotations examples
When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company
The act by which something is kindled. quotations examples
The kindlings of love which had been felt before, now became a flame in every believing soul; and when fallen on our knees, the power of God descended of a truth […]
December 14, 1784, Hester Rogers, letter to the Rev. Mr. Fletcher
comparative more kindling, superlative most kindling
Illuminated, lit. quotations examples
The morning o'er the gilded groveBright on the kindling landscape fell,I sought her where she oft did roveIn want and sorrow's lonely cell;—
1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, "Ye shall seek me in the Morning, but I shall not be,", page 52
present participle and gerund of kindle examples