Word Meanings - DARKLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In the dark. So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. Shak. As the wakeful bird Sings darkling. Milton.

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• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• CANDLEHOLDER
  One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak.
• CANDLE FOOT
  The illumination produced by a British standard candle at a distance of one foot; --used as a unit of illumination.
• SINGSTER
  A songstress. Wyclif.
• DARKLING
  In the dark. So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. Shak. As the wakeful bird Sings darkling. Milton.
• DARKLE
  To grow dark; to show indistinctly. Thackeray.
• CANDLEPIN
  A form of pin slender and nearly straight like a candle. The game played with such pins; -- in form candlepins, used as a singular.
• CANDLE METER
  The illumination given by a standard candle at a distance of one meter; -- used as a unit of illumination, except in Great Britain.
• SINGSPIEL
  A dramatic work, partly in dialogue and partly in song, of a kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated accompaniment.
• CANDLELIGHT
  The light of a candle. Never went by candlelight to bed. Dryden.
• CANDLEBOMB
  1. A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam. 2. A pasteboard shell used in signaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes. Farrow.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• CANDLENUT
  1. The fruit of a euphorbiaceous tree or shrub , native of some of the Pacific islands. It is used by the natives as a candle. The oil from the nut has many uses. 2. The tree itself.
• CANDLEWASTER
  One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation. A bookworm, a candlewaster. B. Jonson.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• CANDLEBERRY TREE
  A shrub , common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.
• CANDLESTICK
  An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.
• CANDLE COAL
  See COAL
• WAKEFUL
  Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant. Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright. Dryden. -- Wake"ful*ly, adv. -- Wake"ful*ness, n.
• CANDLEFISH
  A marine fish , allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it. The beshow.
• CASINGS
  Dried dung of cattle used as fuel. Waterland.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• FOOT CANDLE
  The amount of illumination produced by a standard candle at a distance of one foot.