candle-nut

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• nut, candle

  n. See candle-nut. ...

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• Candle

  ·noun That which gives light; a luminary. II. Candle ·noun A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, c...

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• Candle

  Heb. ner, Job 18:6; 29:3; Ps. 18:28; Prov. 24:20, in all which places the Revised Version and margin...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• candle

  Hold a candle. To hold a candle to one, is to wait on him. Hence, 'yon are not fit to hold a candle ...

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• Nut

  ·vi To gather nuts. II. Nut ·noun The tumbler of a gunlock. III. Nut ·noun A projection on each si...

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• nut

  n. 1) Slang. Explained in quotation. 1882. A. J. Boyd, `Old Colonials,' p. 60: «The peculiar type...

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• nut

  A small piece of iron with a female screw cut through the middle of it, for screwing on to the end o...

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• Candle coal

  ·- ·see Cannel coal. ...

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• Candle foot

  ·add. ·- The illumination produced by a British standard candle at a distance of one foot; — used a...

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• Candle meter

  ·add. ·- The illumination given by a standard candle at a distance of one meter; — used as a unit o...

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• Candle power

  ·add. ·- Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standar...

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• Foot candle

  ·add. ·- The amount of illumination produced by a standard candle at a distance of one foot. ...

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• Candle House

  Messuage west of the Brick House called the "Candle Howse" within the site of the late priory or new...

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• candle-bark

  A cylindrical tin box for candles. ...

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• Becuiba nut

  ·add. ·- The nut of the Brazilian tree Myristica Bicuhyba, which yields a medicinal balsam used for ...

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• Ben nut

  ·- The seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben. ·see <<Moringa>>. ...

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• Betel nut

  ·- The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and sh...

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• Brazil nut

  ·- An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. ...

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• Cola nut

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Cola seed. ...

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• Coquilla nut

  ·- The fruit of a Brazilian tree (Attalea funifera of Martius.). ...

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• Kola nut

  ·add. ·- ·same·as <<Cola>>, Cola nut. ...

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• Neckar nut

  ·- ·see Nicker nut. ...

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• Nickar nut

  ·- ·Alt. of Nickar tree. ...

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• Nicker nut

  ·- A rounded seed, rather smaller than a nutmeg, having a hard smooth shell, and a yellowish or blui...

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• Nut-brown

  ·adj Brown as a nut long kept and dried. ...

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• Para nut

  ·- The Brazil nut. II. Para nut ·add. ·- The Brazil nut. ...

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• Penang nut

  ·- The betel nut. ...

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• Queensland nut

  ·- The nut of an Australian tree (Macadamia ternifolia). It is about an inch in diameter, and contai...

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• Sawarra nut

  ·- ·see Souari nut. ...

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• Souari nut

  ·- The large edible nutlike seed of a tall tropical American tree (Caryocar nuciferum) of the same n...

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• Taqua-nut

  ·noun A Central American name for the ivory nut. ...

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• Vomic nut

  ·- ·same·as Nux vomica. ...

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• bonduc nut

  n. a name in Australia for the fruit of the widely distributed plant Caesalpinabonducella, Flem., N...

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• nut, bonduc

  n. See bonduc nut. ...

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• nut, burrawang

  n. See burrawang. ...

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• nut, nicker

  n. See bonduc nut. ...

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• nut, Queensland

  n. See Queensland nut. ...

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• nut, union

  n. See union nut. ...

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• nut-grass

  n. an Australian plant, Cyperus rotundus, Linn., N.O. Cyperaceae. The specific andthe vernacular na...

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• nut-palm

  n. a tree, Cycas media,R. Br., N.O. Cycadeae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 21: ...

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• palm nut

  n. See under nut. ...

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• Queensland nut

  n. a wild fruit-tree, Macadamia ternifolia, F. v. M., N.O. Proteaceae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful...

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• union nut

  n. a fine cabinet timber, Bosistoa sapindiformis, F. v. M., N.O. Rutaceae. ...

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• dough-nut

  A small roundish cake, made of flour, eggs, and sugar, moistened with milk, and boiled in lard.--Web...

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• pea-nut

  The common name for the fruit of the arachis hypogea. It is also called the ground nut and earth nut...

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• peccan nut

  The nut of the peccan tree, the carys oliviormia of the Southern States. ...

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• pig-nut

  (Lat. juglans porcina.) A small species of walnut.--Michaux, Sylva. ...

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• cob-nut

  a game, which consists in pitching at a row of nuts piled up in heaps of four, that is, three at bot...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• deaf-nut

  a nut whose kernel is decayed. N. ...

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• cocoa-nut tree

  The Palma cocos yields toddy; the nut, a valuable oil and milky juice; the stem, bark, branches, &c....

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• double cocoa-nut

  See sea cocoa-nut ...

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• sea cocoa-nut

  , or double cocoa-nut. The fruit of the Lodoicea seychellarum, a handsome palm growing in the Seyc...

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• bell, book, and candle

  They cursed him with bell, book, and candle; an allusion to the popish form of excommunicating and a...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• thief in a candle

  Part of the wick or snuff, which falling on the tallow, burns and melts it, and causing it to gutter...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose