Definition of taper

• n. - A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
• n. - A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
• a. - Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
• v. i. - To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
• v. t. - To make or cause to taper.