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Show :: Show (n.) A pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of fire damp..

Snuffers :: Snuffers (n. pl.) An instrument for cropping and holding the snuff of a candle.

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

Sconce :: Sconce (p. p.) Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted..

Beshow :: Beshow (n.) A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.

Canstick :: Canstick (n.) Candlestick.

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..

Candle :: Candle (n.) A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light..

Cierge :: Cierge (n.) A wax candle used in religous rites.

Swallet :: Swale (n.) A gutter in a candle.

Cannel Coal :: Cannel coal () A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles..

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..

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches.

Candle Coal :: Candle coal () See Cannel coal.

Percher :: Percher (v. i.) A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar..

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

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

Rushlight :: Rushlight (n.) A rush candle, or its light; hence, a small, feeble light..

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..

Gutter :: Gutter (v. i.) To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind..

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