CANDELABRUM, kan-de-l[=a]'brum, _n._ a branched and ornamented
candlestick:--_pl._ CANDEL[=A]'BRA. [L.]
CANDENT, kan'dent, _adj._ making white: glowing with heat.
CANDESCENCE, kan-des'ens, _n._ a white heat.--_adj._ CANDES'CENT. [L.
_candesc-[)e]re_, inceptive of _cand-[=e]re_, to glow.]
CANDID, kan'did, _adj._ frank, ingenuous: free from prejudice: fair,
impartial.--_adv._ CAN'DIDLY.--_n._ CAN'DIDNESS. [Fr. _candide_--L.
_candidus_, white--_cand-[=e]re_, to shine.]
CANDIDATE, kan'di-d[=a]t, _n._ one who offers himself for any office or
honour, so called because, at Rome, the applicant used to dress in
white.--_ns._ CAN'DIDATURE, CAN'DIDATESHIP, CAN'DIDACY. [L. _candidatus_,
from _candidus_.]
CANDIED. See CANDY.
CANDLE, kan'dl, _n._ wax, tallow, or other like substance surrounding a
wick: a light.--_ns._ CAN'DLE-BERR'Y, the wax-myrtle, also its fruit: the
fruit of _Aleurites triloba_, the candle-berry tree; CAN'DLE-BOMB, a small
glass bomb filled with water, exploding on being held in a candle-flame;
CAN'DLE-COAL (same as CANNEL-COAL); CAN'DLE-DIP'PING, the method of making
candles by dipping instead of moulding; CAN'DLE-END, the end-piece of a
burnt-out candle; CAN'DLE-FISH, the eulachon, a deep-sea fish of the smelt
family found along the north-west coast of America, producing eulachon oil:
another West American fish, resembling a pollock--the _black candle-fish_
or _horse-mackerel_; CAN'DLE-HOLD'ER, one who holds a candle to another
while working--hence one who renders another slight assistance, or humours
him; CAN'DLE-LIGHT, the light of a candle, illumination by means of
candles: the time when candles are lighted; CAN'DLE-LIGHT'ER, one whose
business is to light the candles: a spill; CAN'DLE-POW'ER, the illuminating
power of a standard sperm candle--a unit of luminosity; CAN'DLESTICK, an
instrument for holding a candle, originally a stick or piece of wood;
CAN'DLE-WAST'ER, one who studies late; CAN'DLE-WOOD, the wood of various
West Indian and Mexican resinous trees.--BURN THE CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS, to
waste in two directions at once.--NOT FIT TO HOLD A CANDLE TO, not fit even
to be some one's inferior, not to be compared with.--SELL BY THE CANDLE, to
offer for sale as long as a small piece of candle burns, the bid made just
before it goes out being successful.--THE GAME IS NOT WORTH THE CANDLE, the
thing is not worth the labour or expense of it. [A.S. _candel_--L.
_candela_, from _cand-[=e]re_, to glow.]
CANDLEMAS, kan'dl-mas, _n._ a festival of the R.C. Church in honour of the
purification of the Virgin Mary, on 2d February, and so called from the
number of candles used. [CANDLE and MASS.]