snasten.
/sneɪst/ Now dialect.
A candle-wick: frequently the burning or burnt part of a wick, a snuff.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > wick > snuff
gnastc1175
snuff1382
snitc1420
snotc1420
snitingc1440
candle-sniting1483
candle-snuff1552
snuffing?1575
snaste1592
snuft1657
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. G4v After your weeke or snast [pr. snaft] is stiffened, you dip it in filthy drosse.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. X2 His stinking breath, (which smells like the greasie snase of a candle).
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §369 Till some part of the Candle was consumed, and the Dust gathered about the Snast; But then it made the Snaste big, and long, and to burn duskishly.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 140 In our daies doe men practise to make long-lasting Snasts for lampes. View more context for this quotation
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words The Snaste, the burnt Week or Snuffe of a Candle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
† snastev.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To snuff (a candle). Also figurative.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > make dark [verb (transitive)] > quench (light) > snuff (a candle)
snota1425
snitec1440
snaste1561
top1594
snuff1688
snib1808
1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips vii. 50 He had the charge..of seuen candels for those must he pourge and snaste.
1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips vii. 51 He snasteth and pourgeth by faithe, what thinge so euer hath nede to be pourged.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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