snaste

English

Noun

snaste (plural snastes)

1. The burnt or burning part of the wick of a candle
   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Natural History, page 127

     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.

   • 1865, Edward FitzGerald, Works, page 426

     A coming letter is foretold by a projecting spark on the snaste.

Anagrams

• antses, assent, sanest, stanes, steans