tapers

Nursing often tapers off so gradually that no one in the family quite knows when it stopped.

A priest, or bonze, handed us some little tapers for us to light and offer to his divinity.

In others wax tapers must be lighted at noon, although in the primitive ages they were held in abomination.

They built others in other cities; but still they had a horror of tapers, lustral water, pontifical habits, etc.

The tail is on a level with the back, and gracefully tapers like a drum-stick, to the tuft on the end.

Producing a couple of wax tapers, he lighted them, handed one to Coronado, and led the way into the silent Casa de Montezuma.