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Light :: Light (n.) That which furnishes, or is a source of, light, as the sun, a star, a candle, a lighthouse, etc..

Lucubrate :: Lucubrate (n.) To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.

Petrostearine :: Petrostearine (n.) A solid unctuous material, of which candles are made..

Allumette :: Allumette (n.) A match for lighting candles, lamps, etc..

Snoff :: Snoff (n.) A short candle end used for igniting a fuse.

Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o

Glim :: Glim (n.) A light or candle.

Save-all :: Save-all (n.) A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned..

Lustre :: Lustre (n.) A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character..

Lantern :: Lantern (n.) Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light..

Extinguisher :: Extinguisher (n.) One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle..

Snite :: Snite (v. t.) To blow, as the nose; to snuff, as a candle..

Candlelight :: Candlelight (n.) The light of a candle.

Blue :: Blue (superl.) Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths..

Jesse :: "Jesse (n.) A candlestick with many branches, each of which bears the name of some one of the descendants of Jesse; -- called also tree of Jesse..

Wick :: Wick (n.) A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned..

Dip :: Dip (n.) A dipped candle.

Broach :: Broach (n.) The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.

Spermaceti :: Spermaceti (n.) A white waxy substance obtained from cavities in the head of the sperm whale, and used making candles, oilments, cosmetics, etc. It consists essentially of ethereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. The substance of spermaceti after the removal of certain impurities is sometimes called cetin..

Socket :: Socket (n.) Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick..

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