Crossword clues for candle
candle
- A hundred and fifty start to enjoy what's wicked
- Light source
- Cake topper
- Wicked thing
- Wicked light source
- It may represent a year
- Aromatherapist's tool
- Wax taper
- Wax stick
- Vigil light
- Something wicked?
- Pioneer flashlight?
- Light with a wick
- Light on a birthday cake
- Lanced (anag)
- It's blown out on a birthday cake
- It may be scented
- Incense source, and a hint to the starred answers
- Illumination source
- Elton John's "___ in the Wind"
- Easter glow
- Burning light
- Blackout necessity
- Ancient time-telling device
- Wicked one
- Part 3 of motto
- Year, symbolically
- It may be brought out during a blackout
- There's one for every year
- Wick holder
- Thing to snuff
- Lightheaded one?
- Item on a birthday cake
- Stick of wax with a wick in the middle
- Equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin
- The basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites
- "Out, out, brief ___!"
- Taper, e.g
- Unit of luminous intensity
- Rushlight
- " . . . out, brief ___!": Macbeth
- Bell, book and ___
- Test eggs
- Chandler's product
- Wicked wax
- Check an egg for freshness
- Wax light
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Candle \Can"dle\, n. [OE. candel, candel, AS, candel, fr. L. candela a (white) light made of wax or tallow, fr. cand["e]re to be white. See Candid, and cf. Chandler, Cannel, Kindle.]
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A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
--Shak.Note: Candles are usually made by repeatedly dipping the wicks in the melted tallow, etc. (``dipped candles''), or by casting or running in a mold.
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That which gives light; a luminary.
By these blessed candles of the night.
--Shak.Candle nut, the fruit of a euphorbiaceous shrub ( Aleurites triloba), a native of some of the Pacific islands; -- socalled because, when dry, it will burn with a bright flame, and is used by the natives as a candle. The oil has many uses.
Candle power (Photom.), illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
Electric candle, A modification of the electric arc lamp, in which the carbon rods, instead of being placed end to end, are arranged side by side, and at a distance suitable for the formation of the arc at the tip; -- called also, from the name of the inventor, Jablockoff candle.
Excommunication by inch of candle, a form of excommunication in which the offender is allowed time to repent only while a candle burns.
Not worth the candle, not worth the cost or trouble.
Rush candle, a candle made of the pith of certain rushes, peeled except on one side, and dipped in grease.
Sale by inch of candle, an auction in which persons are allowed to bid only till a small piece of candle burns out.
Standard candle (Photom.), a special form of candle employed as a standard in photometric measurements; usually, a candle of spermaceti so constructed as to burn at the rate of 120 grains, or 7.8 grams, per hour.
To curse by bell, book and candle. See under Bell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English candel "lamp, lantern, candle," an early ecclesiastical borrowing from Latin candela "a light, torch, candle made of tallow or wax," from candere "to shine," from PIE root *kand- "to glow, to shine, to shoot out light" (cognates: Sanskrit cand- "to give light, shine," candra- "shining, glowing, moon;" Greek kandaros "coal;" Welsh cann "white;" Middle Irish condud "fuel").\n
\nCandles were unknown in ancient Greece (where oil lamps sufficed), but common from early times among Romans and Etruscans. Candles on birthday cakes seems to have been originally a German custom. To hold a candle to originally meant "to help in a subordinate capacity," from the notion of an assistant or apprentice holding a candle for light while the master works (compare Old English taporberend "acolyte"). To burn the candle at both ends is recorded from 1730.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin. 2 The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter. 3 (context obsolete English) A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candel
4 (context forestry English) A fast-growing, light-colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth slows in summer, the shoot darkens and is no longer conspicuous. v
1 (context embryology transitive English) To observe the growth of an embryo inside (an egg), using a bright light source. 2 (context pottery English) To dry greenware prior to beginning of the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware. 3 To check an item (such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.
WordNet
n. stick of wax with a wick in the middle [syn: taper, wax light]
the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin [syn: candela, cd, standard candle]
v. examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light
Wikipedia
A candle is a source of light, typically made of wax.
Candle may also refer to:
Candle is a single by the band Skinny Puppy, taken from their 1996 album The Process. The song was atypical of the band's normal output in that it was built around acoustic guitar.
Candle is a science fiction novel by John Barnes that was published in 2000, it is part of the author's Century Next Door series.
Candle is a Christian band that is best known for their Agapeland related children's albums Music Machine and Bullfrogs and Butterflies. They recorded children's albums for Sparrow Records' Birdwing branch.
They have won many awards including the Dove Award. They have also been nominated for a Grammy Award .
"Candle (Sick and Tired)" is a pop rock song recorded by American band The White Tie Affair, released as the lead single from their debut album, Walk This Way. The video for this single features a guest appearance from Glee star Heather Morris as well as cameos from lonelygirl15 star Jessica Rose and Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden.
"Candle" is a single by Canadian country music artist Jason McCoy. Released in 1995, it was the sixth single from his album Jason McCoy. The song reached #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in March 1996.
A candle is an ignitable wick embedded in wax or another flammable solid substance such as tallow that provides light, and in some cases, a fragrance. It can also be used to provide heat, or used as a method of keeping time.
A candle manufacturer is traditionally known as a chandler. Various devices have been invented to hold candles, from simple tabletop candle holders to elaborate chandeliers.
For a candle to burn, a heat source (commonly a naked flame) is used to light the candle's wick, which melts and vaporizes a small amount of fuel (the wax). Once vaporized, the fuel combines with oxygen in the atmosphere to ignite and form a constant flame. This flame provides sufficient heat to keep the candle burning via a self-sustaining chain of events: the heat of the flame melts the top of the mass of solid fuel; the liquefied fuel then moves upward through the wick via capillary action; the liquefied fuel finally vaporizes to burn within the candle's flame.
As the mass of solid fuel is melted and consumed, the candle becomes shorter. Portions of the wick that are not emitting vaporized fuel are consumed in the flame. The incineration of the wick limits the exposed length of the wick, thus maintaining a constant burning temperature and rate of fuel consumption. Some wicks require regular trimming with scissors (or a specialized wick trimmer), usually to about one-quarter inch (~0.7 cm), to promote slower, steady burning, and also to prevent smoking. In early times, the wick needed to be trimmed quite frequently. Special candle-scissors, referred to as " snuffers" were produced for this purpose in the 20th century and were often combined with an extinguisher. In modern candles, the wick is constructed so that it curves over as it burns. This ensures that the end of the wick gets oxygen and is then consumed by fire—a self-trimming wick.
Usage examples of "candle".
When I saw Nanette in my arms, beaming with love, and Marton near the bed, holding a candle, with her eyes reproaching us with ingratitude because we did not speak to her, who, by accepting my first caresses, had encouraged her sister to follow her example, I realized all my happiness.
There was light everywhere, coming not from candles set afire, but streaming in through the windows in lovely parallel lines of emerald and blue.
Candle trees, bottlebrush trees, aloe trees, bougainvillea, hibiscus, jacaranda, agapanthus and arrowroot, but my orchids are a fuck-up.
A dusty candle burned in a dusty sconce and by its light Alec saw a broadsword hanging on the wall above the bed, its scarred scabbard blackened with age.
This step completed, he passed one of the aromatic branches several times over the candle flame, dipped it in the glowing water, and sprinkled Alec from head to foot, repeating the flame and water process several times.
Seregil inhaled the familiar morning smells of the tower as he and Alec headed up to the workroom the next morning- the mingled incense of parchment, candle smoke, and herbs overlaid with the more immediate aromas of breakfast.
Not understanding what she meant, he took the candle in order to find out, and in the midst of the foliage lit up from below he saw old Amable hanging high up with a stable-halter round his neck.
She told with charming simplicity that she knew perfectly well that she could not make me amorous of her, because I loved another, and that her only hope was therefore in a surprise, and that she had foreseen the happy moment when I told her that she need not dress herself to light a candle.
Now if there were several ministers in the church, dressed in such gorgeous colors that I could see them at the distance from the apse at which my limited income compels me to sit, and candles were burning, and censers were swinging, and the platform was full of the sacred bustle of a gorgeous ritual worship, and a bell rang to tell me the holy moments, I should not mind the pillar at all.
But despite the glow of a thousand candles and Argand lamps, he saw nothing but flashes of fans and trains and white slippers.
There were candles and missals, collections plates, beads, lunules, censers, thuribles, aspergillums, and ciboria.
I saw the Duchess in the attic, in her atelier, lighting candles to stave off the dark.
While Abbot Henry silently fetched a brace of candlesticks from the nearest aumbry and invested them with fresh beeswax candles, Arnault and Ninian moved to the rear of the chapel, where Ninian proceeded to lay out several small items from a deerskin pouch at his girdle.
They sat on rolled raffia mats under the awning, their faces lit by a single candle which flickered in a resin holder.
Candles had been brought to light the long desk or dais where sat the Bailly in his great chair, and the twelve scarlet-robed jurats.