Candle
a light made of a wick of cotton or other material enveloped in prepared wax or tallow. Candles are primarily divided into dipped or mold according to the method of their manuaccording to the method of their manufacture. Named from the materials employed in their construction, they are ine, tallow, palm-oil, or wax candles.
CANDLEBERRY (Myrica cerifera), a shrub, natural order Myriceæ, growing from 4 to 18 feet high, and common in North America, where candles are made from its drupes or berries, which are about the size of peppercorns, and covered with a greenish-white wax, popularly known as Blayberry tallow. The wax is collected by boiling the drupes in water and skimming off the surface. A bushel of berries yields from four to five to the same genus is the sweet-gale pounds of wax. Another plant belonging (Myrica Gale), which grows abundantly in bogs and marshes in Scotland-a small shrub, with leaves somewhat like the myrtle or willow, of a fragrant odor and bitter taste, and yielding an essential oil by distillation. by distillation. to the Pacific coast of the United States.
It is so oily that when dried and a wick is drawn through it, it will burn like a candrawn through it, it will burn like a candle. It is allied to the Smelt family. cation of the Blessed Virgin, Feb. 2; so-called from being formerly celebrated with processions and shows of candles.
It was instituted in the 6th century, during the reign of Justinian, and came in lieu of the Roman festival of Lupercalia, which had been also celebrated in the month of February, and with candles. 1 CANDY