Candled vs Dandled - What's the difference?
candled | dandled |
(candle)
A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.
(obsolete) A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.
(forestry) A fast-growing, light-colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth slows in summer, the shoot darkens and is no longer conspicuous.
(embryology) To observe the growth of an embryo inside an egg, using a bright light source.
(pottery) To dry greenware prior to beginning of the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware.
To check an item (such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.
(dandle)
To move up and down on one’s knee or in one’s arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.
:* "you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees." – Isaiah 66:12 (NIV)
To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet.
:* [T]hey have put me in a silk night-gown and gaudy fool's cap, and make me now and then stand in the window with it. I am ashamed to be dandled thus, and cannot look in the glass without blushing to see myself turned into such a pretty little master. –
:* The book, thus dandled into popularity by bishops and good ladies, contained many pieces of nursery eloquence. –
(obsolete) To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.
:* Captains do so dandle their doings, and dally in the service, as it they would not have the enemy subdued. –