Word Finder - candles

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A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.

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The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.

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A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.

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A fast-growing, light-colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth slows in summer, the shoot darkens and is no longer conspicuous.

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To observe the growth of an embryo inside (an egg), using a bright light source.

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To dry greenware prior to beginning of the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware.

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To check an item (such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.

Do you have any candles or a flashlight?

Morel brought candles and a bottle of wine.

The stage kitchen was dark, except for red candles around the counter area where he did the prep for whatever he was making.

To continue the theme, add candles or flowers inside the cage.

His golden eyes blazed like two candles.

The cake is ready and the candles are on the counter over there.

If you choose to use candles, make sure they are placed inside hurricanes so the flame does not cause a safety hazard.

If you are looking for something other than flowers for your centerpieces, consider candles.

Similar to the vases used for tall flowers, hurricane glasses can be placed over white or silver pillar candles for a simple but elegant look.

For beach weddings, add small sea shells to a vase or hurricane and use with or without candles.

To create a floating candle centerpiece, shop for candles specifically designed to float.

Most arts and craft stores sell floating candles.

If you plan to use floating candles in your centerpiece, make sure the candle's flame is below the rim of the bowl.

Adding colored votive candles gives an extra gleam of romantic lighting to the ceremony atmosphere.

Fall wedding favors can be anything from lip balm or small candles in fall scents like cinnamon or fig, to metal leaf bookmarks with mahogany tassels.

Mirrors and candles can go far in creating beautiful, yet inexpensive, centerpieces.

In a dimly lit room with rich fall colors in the other decorations (especially tablecloths) like plum and burgundy, setting up candles on small mirrors on the tables can bring the atmosphere to life with a warm glow.

You can even find leaf-shaped candles for an extra fall-inspired look.

I don't think there's enough room on the cake for twenty-five candles.

Soap, candles and tobacco are also manufactured, and the town is a centre for local agricultural trade.

Use deep autumn-colored candles accented in gold to suggest the abundance of the autumn harvest, creating an elegant, well-lit table.

For venues with candle or flame restrictions, LED candles provide the right amount of spooky, flickering light with just a few batteries.

Check beforehand with your venue prior to purchasing candles, lights, and decorations.

Other venues may have restrictions on items like candles or fog machines.

Use baskets, ribbons, and candles to set the mood.

The manufactures comprise sheet-iron, boilers, zinc, brick and tiles, paraffin, petroleum, soap and candles.

It was an elaborate construction of polished brass, and, contrary to the usual custom, seems to have been placed in the centre of the altar-step, long branches stretching out towards the four cardinal points, bearing smaller candles.

Other paschal candles seem to have been of scarcely less size.

The simplex is worn on Good Friday, and at masses for the dead; also at the blessing of the candles at Candlemas, the singing of the absolution at the coffin, and the solemn investiture with the pallium.

Other leading manufactures are malt liquors ($21,620,794 in 1905), railway rolling-stock consisting largely of cars ($21,428,227), men's clothing ($18,496,173), planing mill products ($17,725,711), carriages and wagons ($16,096,125), distilled liquors ($15,976,523), rubber and elastic goods ($15,963,603), furniture ($13,322,608), cigars and cigarettes ($13,241,230), agricultural implements ($12,891,197), women's clothing ($12,803582), lumber and timber products ($12,567,992), soap and candles.

The poorer grades are employed in the manufacture of soap, candles and phonograph records.

The process of manufacturing soaps by boiling fatty acids with caustic alkalis or sodium carbonate came into practice with the development of the manufacture of candles by saponifying fats, for it provided a means whereby the oleic acid, which is valueless for candle making, could be worked up. The combination is effected in open vats heated by a steam coil and provided with a stirring appliance; if soda ash be used it is necessary to guard against boiling over.

Violet vestments are also worn on days of intercession, at votive masses of the Passion, at certain other masses of a pronouncedly intercessory and penitential character, at intercessory processions, at the blessing of candles on Candlemas Day, and at the blessing of the baptismal water.

Among other manufactures are butter and cheese, canned fruits and vegetables, glass and earthenware, printing and wrapping paper, furniture, matches, hats, clothing, pharmaceutical products, soaps and - p erfumery, ice, artificial drinks, cigars and cigarettes, fireworks anc candles.

Industrially and commercially Lemberg is the most important city in Galicia, its industries including the manufacture of machinery and iron wares, matches, stearin candles and naphtha, arrack and liqueurs, chocolate, chicory, leather and plaster of Paris, as well as brewing, corn-milling and brick and tile making..

From 1416 citizens were obliged to hang out candles between certain hours on dark nights to illuminate the streets.

The so-called "stearin" of candles is a mixture of stearic and palmitic acids.

Industries include the manufacture of cotton fabric, flour and wax candles.

Tallow candles as a substitute for whale-oil had been introduced, and the British market was closed by a duty of £r8 a ton on oil; a bounty offered by the Massachusetts legislature (£5 on white and £ 3 on yellow or brown spermaceti, and £2 on whale-oil per ton) was of slight assistance.

About 1750 sperm candles were first manufactured.

The mud from the Ysel furnishes the material for large brick-works and potteries; there are also a celebrated manufactory of stearine candles, a yarn factory, an oil refinery and cigar factories.

Dijon is well known for its mustard, and for the black currant liqueur called cassis de Dijon; its industries include the manufacture of machinery, automobiles, bicycles, soap, biscuits, brandy, leather, boots and shoes, candles and hosiery.

When acetylene is burnt from a 000 union jet burner, at all ordinary pressures a smoky flame is obtained, but on the pressure being increased to 4 inches a magnificent flame results, free from smoke, and developing an illuminating value of 240 candles per 5 cubic feet of gas consumed.

By means of lighted candles violently dashed to the ground and extinguished the faithful were graphically taught the meaning of the greater excommunication - though in a somewhat misleading way, for it is a fundamental principle of the canon law that disciplina est excommunicatio, non eradicatio.

The clergy were bidden to exhort their hearers to the " works of charity, mercy and faith, specially prescribed and commanded in Scripture, and not to repose their trust or affiance in any other works devised by men's phantasies beside Scripture; as in wandering to pilgrimages, offering of money, candles or tapers to images or relics, or kissing or licking the same, saying over a number of beads, not understood or minded on, or in such-like superstition."

The filtering medium in this, as in other filters of the same kind, takes the form of a hollow cylinder or "candle," through the walls of which the water has to pass from the outside to the inside, the candles often being arranged so that they may be directly attached to a tap, whereby the rate of flow, which is apt to be slow, is accelerated by the pressure of the main.

But even filters of this type, if they are to be fully relied upon, must be frequently cleaned and sterilized, and great care must be taken that the joints and connexions are watertight, and that the candles are without cracks or flaws.

Other industries include shipbuilding, glass-blowing and the manufacture of stearine candles.

Velvet, cloth, machinery, bricks and candles are manufactured, and there are flour-mills, breweries, distilleries and lignite mines.

There are various important manufactures, such as soap and candles, subsidiary to the packing industry; and the city has large flour mills, railway and machine shops, and foundries.