taper
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1. taper - Noun
2. taper - Adjective
3. taper - Verb
Meaning
A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
To make or cause to taper.
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Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather! What is the odds so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!
A palm wine taper does not stop tapping palm wine because he once fell from the top of a palm wine tree.