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swaling

swaling (plural swalings)

Melted wax that runs down the edge of a candle.
- 1929, Archaeologia Cantiana (volume 41, page 68)
  Metal cups, or basins, were very generally employed in churches for catching the swalings of wax candles, wax being a commodity too valuable to be wasted.

scaling

scaling (countable and uncountable, plural scalings)

The removing of the scales of fish.
The formation of a layer of scale on a surface.
The removal of a layer of scale from a surface.
The measurement of dimensions using a scale.
The process of adjusting raw measurement data to fit an expected distribution, such fitting examination results to a normal distribution.
(mathematics, physics) The expression of the terms of an equation using powers of nondimensional quantities.
The process of adjusting sights to a ship's guns.

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