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intransitive. To drop. Of a candle: To gutter.
Of a candle: To melt away; to gutter. Also said of the tallow or wax. Hence figurative to waste away.
intransitive. Of a candle: To melt away rapidly by its becoming channelled on one side and the tallow or wax pouring down; to sweal. Also with down…