He who or that which wastes candles by late study at night. So also Candle-wasting.
1599. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., III. ii. Was there euer so prosperous an Inuention thus vnluckely peruerted, and spoyld, by a whoore-sonne Book-worme, a Candle-waster?
1599. Shaks., Much Ado, V. i. 18. Patch griefe with prouerbs, make misfortune drunke With candle-wasters.
1600. E. Blount, Hosp. Incur. Fooles, Ded. (N.). A thousand of these Candle-wasting-Booke Wormes.
2. A small bit of burning wick that falls upon the substance of the candle and causes it to run.
