Crossword-Solution: TAPER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Taper | n. | A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light. |
| Taper | n. | A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire. |
| Taper | a. | Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers. |
| Taper | v. i. | To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end. |
| Taper | v. t. | To make or cause to taper. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TAPER | anagram | APERT, APTER, PARTE, PATER, PATRE, PEART, PETRA, PRATE, PRETA, PTERA, REAPT, REPAT, RETAP, TERAP |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
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Sentences with TAPER (5)
For my part, I love to feel the grape at my very finger-ends before they make the harp-strings tinkle.” 22 CHAPTER XVII At eve, within yon studious nook, I ope my brass-embossed book, Portray’d with many a holy deed Of martyrs crown’d with heavenly meed; Then, as my taper waxes dim, Chant, ere I sleep, my measured hymn.
Never were hands more exquisite than hers, and it was a joy to look at them when she threaded her needle or adjusted her gold thimble to her taper middle finger as she sewed away on the little night-drawers or fashioned a bodice or a bib.
There is now an inexpressible charm about the pictures, equaling the delicate beauty of the daguerreotype; but being very susceptible of change, it must be viewed by the light of a taper only.
You must know that I have spoken in your favor; you owe me a famous taper!” “You have spoken to Madame de Cintré?” said Newman.
Let us come down to the drawing-room for a few minutes; he will hear us here.” She preceded him down the staircase with the taper light in her hand, looking unnaturally tall and thin in the long dove-coloured dressing-gown she wore.
Quotes with TAPER (3)
In all my wanderings through this world of care, In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting, by repose: I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and …
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning’s flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself--and not a taper lighted at the hearthstone of the race, which pales before the light of common day.
The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 198 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).