different between caudle vs candle

English

Etymology

From Old Northern French caudel, from Medieval Latin caldellum, diminutive of Latin caldum, caldus (“warm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??d?l/
• Rhymes: -??d?l
• Homophones: coddle (in accents with the cot-caught merger), caudal

Noun

caudle (plural caudles)

1. A hot drink given to the sick, consisting of wine or ale, eggs, and bread.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 4:

     A venerable lady, known as Great-Aunt Grantley, who had money to bequeath to the Heir, and whom Adrian called The Eighteenth Century, occupied with Hippias the back ground of the house, and shared her caudles with him.

Synonyms

• posset

Verb

caudle (third-person singular simple present caudles, present participle caudling, simple past and past participle caudled)

1. (transitive) To make into caudle.
2. (transitive) To serve as a caudle to; to refresh.

Anagrams

• Claude, DeLuca, Deluca, cedula

English

Etymology

From Middle English candel, from Old English candel (“candle”), borrowed from Latin cand?la (“candle”), from Latin cande? (“be white, bright, shining”, verb); see candid. Doublet of candela and chandelle.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kænd?l/, /?kændl?/
• Rhymes: -ænd?l

Noun

candle (plural candles)

1. A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.

2. The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.
3. (obsolete) A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.
4. (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 conspicuous.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: kandra
• ? Chichewa: kandulo

Translations

Verb

candle (third-person singular simple present candles, present participle candling, simple past and past participle candled)

1. (embryology, transitive) To observe the growth of an embryo inside (an egg), using a bright light source.
2. (pottery, transitive) To dry (greenware) prior to the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware.
3. (transitive) To check (an item, such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.

Further reading

• candle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• candle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Declan, calend, lanced