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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.
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An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.
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A maker or seller of candles.
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One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation.
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A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick.
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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 of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.
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A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling.
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A candlestick with many branches, each of which bears the name of some one of the descendants of Jesse; -- called also tree of Jesse.
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The part of a candlestick which supports its branches.
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A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned.
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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.
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Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous.
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Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
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A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called also latten brass.
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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.
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Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.
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A lamp or candlestick.
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A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character.
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Candlestick.
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A solid unctuous material, of which candles are made.
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