death candle
noun
1A candle kept burning beside a dying person or a corpse.
2 Scottish a hovering or flickering phosphorescent light, superstitiously regarded as an omen of death; a corpse candle.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Robert Southey (1774–1843), poet and reviewer.
- sleeping partner
- sleeping pill
- sleeping policeman
- sleeping sickness
- sleep-learning
- sleepless
- sleeplessly
- sleeplessness
- sleep like a log (or top)
- sleep mode
- sleep on it
- sleep (or rest) easy
- sleep out
- sleep over
- sleepover
- sleep rough
- sleep something off
- sleepsuit
- sleep tight
- sleep-train
- sleep training
- sleepwalk
- sleepwalker
- sleepwear
- sleep with one eye open