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To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.

One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens.

Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness. [Achan] wrought folly in Israel. Josh. vii. 15. When lovely woman stoops to folly. Goldsmith.

Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc.

The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.

The daughter of Njörd, aud goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct. [Written also Frea, Fraying, and Ereyja.]

Rascally; scandalous. [R.] "Furciferous knaves." De Quincey.

he quality of being noble; noble-mindedness. Generosity is in nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities. Barrow.

A kind of candy sweetmeat, or a piece of it; -- called, in full, Gibraltar rock.

An ornamental branched candlestick.

A light or candle. [Slang] Dickens. Douse the glim, put out the light. [Slang]

To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandenscent. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. Pope.

An incandescent lamp. See Incandescent, a.

ree access. John x. 9. -- To go in for. [Colloq.] (a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a measure, etc.). (b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor, preferment, etc.) (c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.). (d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc. He was as ready to go in for…

A white tropical tern (Cygis candida).

The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor. Bubbles o'er like a city with gossip, scandal, and spite. Tennyson.

rtain days in the terms which are observed as holidays in the inns of court and chancery (Candlemas, Ascension, St. John Baptist's, and All Saints' Days); called also Dies non juridici. -- Grand duchess. (a) The wife or widow of a grand duke. (b) A lady having the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right. (c) In Russia…

To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.

mber with a handicap in any contest; hence, in general, to place at disadvantage; as, the candidate was heavily handicapped.

The presiding priest who initiated candidates at the Eleusinian mysteries; hence, one who teaches the mysteries and duties of religion. Abp Potter.