a fast growing, light colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth slows in summer, the shoot darkens and is no longer highlighted to one’s view
In forestry, a fast growing, light colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth slows in summer, the shoot darkens and is no longer highlighted to one's view
stick of wax with a wick in the middle the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light
the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin
In pottery A method for drying greenware prior to beginning of the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware
A candle is a stick of hard wax with a piece of string called a wick through the middle. You light the wick in order to give a steady flame that provides light. The bedroom was lit by a single candle
Altar decoration and processions with candles were invariably a part of solemn devotional moments Margery Kempe also speaks of celebrating the feast of Corpus Christi when a "solemn procession with many candles and great solemnity (that) went through the town (Ch 45) Candles were expensive and major objects of donor piety, the giving of candles often being commemorated in church records The number of candles used marked the great or lesser solemnity of a mass in official accounts For example, the merchant guild of Bridgewater in 1393 stipulated that their chantry priest (one saying special prayers at a designated altar or chapel within a church) should provide Two torches which are to burn and illuminate every day during the elevation of Christ's body in the mass for the Blessed Virgin in the said choir, weighing 16 lb; see Rubin, Miri Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 60-62 [Chapter 28] [Chapter 82]
If you burn the candle at both ends, you try to do too many things in too short a period of time so that you have to stay up very late at night and get up very early in the morning to get them done