A thick candle formerly used at a lich-wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment.

Synonym of Yablochkov candle

(electrical engineering) A type of electric carbon arc lamp.

Not worth the cost or trouble.

The resinous exudation of the hemlock tree (Abies canadensis, now Picea glauca); hemlock gum.

Canada balsam

A candle made of paraffin.

(US) bacon made only from the loin, with no belly meat, and sold in lean medallions

Tropaeolum peregrinum, a climbing plant native to western South America.

(zoology, dated) A tubular vessel having a calcareous coating, and connecting the oral ambulacral ring with the madreporic tubercle. It appears to be excretory in function.