Definition of "candle" []

• A solid, usually cylindrical mass of tallow, wax, or other fatty substance with an axially embedded wick that is burned to provide light. (noun)
• Something resembling this object in shape or use. (noun)
• Physics An obsolete unit of luminous intensity, originally defined in terms of a wax candle with standard composition and equal to 1.02 candelas. Also called international candle. (noun)
• Physics See candela. (noun)
• To examine (an egg) for freshness or fertility by holding it before a bright light. (verb-transitive)

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• "Suppose I take a taper or candle (we can now be liberal in our use of the word “candle, ” since we understand what it means), and place it in one of the tubes; it will go on, you see, burning very well."
• "In the school, no time in the year, they shall use tallow candle, in no wise, but _only wax candle_, at the costs of their friends."
• "_] We must put out the whole world as I put out this candle [_he puts out candle_]; we must put out the light of the stars and the light of the sun and the light of the moon [_he puts out the remaining candles and comes down to where the others are_], till we have brought everything to nothing once again."