A low tract of moist or marshy land.

A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.

A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.

A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.

A shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.

A gutter in a candle.

To burn slowly.

To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.

To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.

To consume with fire; burn.

To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.