Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The burnt wick of a candle.
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Examples
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Or that the little protuberances in the candle-snuff thicken the air and make it cloudy; or the hookedness of the nails is the cause and not an accident consequential to an ulcer.
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Or that the little protuberances in the candle-snuff thicken the air and make it cloudy; or the hookedness of the nails is the cause and not an accident consequential to an ulcer.
Symposiacs 2004
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Went off like candle-snuff, CHARLIE, while stoopin 'to lace up' is boot.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 Various
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To be sure you are a "lungy" man and I am a "livery" man, so that your chances of escaping candle-snuff accumulations with melancholic prostration are much better.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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To be sure you are a "lungy" man and I am a "livery" man, so that your chances of escaping candle-snuff accumulations with melancholic prostration are much better.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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Jopp sat on till his eyes were attracted by the shadow of the candle-snuff on the wall, and looking at the original he found that it had formed itself into a head like a red-hot cauliflower.
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Jopp sat on till his eyes were attracted by the shadow of the candle-snuff on the wall, and looking at the original he found that it had formed itself into a head like a red-hot cauliflower.
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884
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Not that I care a pinch of candle-snuff about such things, for you are very well aware I don't; but that such is the fact, and you, Tom Gradgrind, can't change it.
Hard Times 1876
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Not that I care a pinch of candle-snuff about such things, for you are very well aware I don't; but that such is the fact, and you, Tom Gradgrind, can't change it.
Hard Times 1868
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Not that I care a pinch of candle-snuff about such things, for you are very well aware I don't; but that such is the fact, and you, Tom Gradgrind, can't change it.
Hard Times Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1868
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