Crossword-Solution: CANDLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Candle | n. | A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light. |
| Candle | n. | That which gives light; a luminary. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| CANDLE | anagram | CENDAL, DECLAN, ENCLAD, LANCED |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with CANDLE (5)
When the turquoise went to Malvina Sauvage, the French banker’s daughter, Marie shrugged her shoulders and betook herself to her little tent of shawls, where she began to shuffle her cards by the light of a tallow candle, calling out, “Fortunes, fortunes!” The young priest, Father Duchesne, went first to have his fortune read.
Oak extinguished the lantern by blowing into it and then pinching out the snuff, the cot being lighted by a candle suspended by a twisted wire.
But, for myself, during the whole of my Custom-House experience, moonlight and sunshine, and the glow of firelight, were just alike in my regard; and neither of them was of one whit more avail than the twinkle of a tallow-candle.
There is an interesting semi-parallel to this term among typographers and printers: When new typefaces are being punch-cut by hand, a `smoke test' (hold the letter in candle smoke, then press it onto paper) is used to check out new dies.
The night after the funeral, at which he had been sadly affected, Utterson locked the door of his business room, and sitting there by the light of a melancholy candle, drew out and set before him an envelope addressed by the hand and sealed with the seal of his dead friend.
Quotes with CANDLE (3)
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 59 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).