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can·dle (kăn'dl)
n.
    1. A solid, usually cylindrical mass of tallow, wax, or other fatty substance with an axially embedded wick that is burned to provide light.
    2. Something resembling this object in shape or use.
  1. Physics.
    1. (Abbr. c) An obsolete unit of luminous intensity, originally defined in terms of a wax candle with standard composition and equal to 1.02 candelas. Also called international candle.
    2. See candela.
tr.v., -dled, -dling, -dles.
To examine (an egg) for freshness or fertility by holding it before a bright light.

[Middle English candel, from Old English and from Anglo-Norman candele, both from Latin candēla, from candēre, to shine.]

candler can'dler n.



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