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/snæst/ · noun
(obsolete, dialectal) The burnt or burning part of the wick of a candle; the snuff..
Till some part of the candle was consumed, and the dust gathered about the snaste; but then it made the snaste big, and long, and to burn duskishly.
A coming letter is foretold by a projecting spark on the snaste.
As that snaste of that candle, goos out.
Use snaste when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Snaste means (obsolete, dialectal) The burnt or burning part of the wick of a candle; the snuff..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Till some part of the candle was consumed, and the dust gathered about the snaste; but then it made the snaste big, and long, and to burn duskishly.
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