Ta"per (?), n. [AS. tapur, tapor, taper; cf. Ir. tapar, W. tampr.]
1.
A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
Get me a taper in my study, Lucius.
Shak.
2.
A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
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Ta"per (?), a. [Supposed to be from taper, n., in allusion to its form.]
Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
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Ta"per, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tapered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tapering.]
To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
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Ta"per, v. t.
To make or cause to taper.
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