candle : Idioms & Phrases

• noun orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America
  Habenaria dilatata; bog rein orchid.
  

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Can"dle coal`

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1. See Cannel coal.

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• noun the light provided by a burning candle
  candlelight.
  

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• noun a holder with sockets for candles
  candlestick.
  

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• 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.

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• (Photom.), illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.

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• . (a) A thick candle formerly used at a lich wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment. (b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death.

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• a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death.

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• a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick in melted tallow.

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• 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.

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• a form of excommunication in which the offender is allowed time to repent only while a candle burns.

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• a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death.

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• . See under Candle.

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• noun a former international unit of luminous intensity; now replaced by the candela
  

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• a candle made of paraffine.

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• not worth the cost or trouble.

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• noun yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico with a tall spike of creamy white flowers
  Yucca whipplei.
  

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• (R. C. Ch.), a large wax candle, blessed and placed on the altar on Holy Saturday, or the day before Easter.

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• noun a cylindrical firework that projects a series of colored balls of fire
  

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• a kind of firework (generally held in the hand), characterized by the continued emission of shower of sparks, and the ejection, at intervals, of brilliant balls or stars of fire which are thrown upward as they become ignited.

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• noun a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick
  rushlight.
  

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• a candle made of the pith of certain rushes, peeled except on one side, and dipped in grease.

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• an auction in which persons are allowed to bid only till a small piece of candle burns out.

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• (Zoöl.), a belemnite.

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• noun 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
  candle; candela; cd.
  

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• (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.

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• . See under Candle, and Gauge.

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• noun North American plant with spikes of yellow flowers, found in wet places
  Lysimachia terrestris.
  

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• a candle made of tallow.

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• . See under Bell.

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• a solemn form of excommunication used in the Roman Catholic church, the bell being tolled, the book of offices for the purpose being used, and three candles being extinguished with certain ceremonies. Nares.

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• . See under Bell.

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• . See under Bell.

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• noun a candle lighted by a worshiper in a church
  vigil light.
  

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