smoulder

Alternative form of smolder.

Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire. Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this again rarely results in flames.

To smother; to suffocate; to choke.

They preassed forward vnder their ensignes, bearing downe such as stoode in their way, and with their owne fire smouldered and burnt them to ashes

Time Which lays its hand on battlements and towers, And smoulders them all to dust has committed its ravages upon this ancient castle.

smoke; smother

The smoulder stops our nose with stench.

Alternative form of smolder.

Dry and wormeaten, a spark upon them became a smoulder, and a smoulder a blaze.

The smoulder in his eyes dimmed, and he winced, half bending in agony.

A disease of narcissus and related flowers caused by the fungus Botrytis narcissicola, and characterized by dark brown lesions on the leaves.

When grown as ornamentals it is important to inspect crops and physically remove rogue cultivars and other off-types, but whatever narcissus are grown for they should be inspected for signs of stem nematod lesions ('spickels'), disease 'primaries' (such as smoulder) and virus symptoms.