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snuff
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{n} (nothing to do with tobacco)
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Definition:Defn: The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
painting: by Pieter Claesz, Vanitas. Still Life (1660)
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If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup.
Swift.
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She passed the valet, the snuff fell from the candle wick
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 11 (Book Eleven). Simon & Schuster
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The fire had not then burnt unusually low, nor was the snuff of the candle very long; the candle, however, had been blown out.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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