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a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.

Candidacy.

The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement. [Cant, U. S.]

Candidacy.

In a candid manner.

The quality of being candid.

Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits.

To make or become white, or candied. [R.]

Of or pertaining to Candia; Cretary.

A variety of spinel, of a dark color, found at Candy, in Ceylon.

al body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shak.

See Cannel coal.

The illumination produced by a British standard candle at a distance of one foot; --used as a unit of illumination.

The illumination given by a standard candle at a distance of one meter; -- used as a unit of illumination, except in Great Britain.

Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.

s of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.

A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam.

ific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it.

One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak.

The light of a candle. Never went by candlelight to bed. Dryden.