A wax candle.
A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.
A person who exhibits bougie behavior.
Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery).
A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
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.
The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.
To check (an item, such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.
To dry (greenware) prior to the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware.
To observe the growth of an embryo inside (an egg), using a bright light source.