taper

After that time, it is my hope that things will taper off a bit.

In January, the Fed will start to scale back—taper—its bond purchases, from $85 billion per month to $75 billion.

Gabrielle Taper, 19, sat next to her two teenage friends and nibbled on crawfish and Andouille, a type of sausage made from pork.

Markets would have to defend against the possibility of a strong report reigniting October taper expectations.

This is the dreaded “taper” that has lately given stock markets nausea.

She blushed and declined, and, with the refusal on her very lips, fished it out with her taper fingers.

Then the porter lifted a taper, and, followed by the young lad, began to make the tour of the church.

I suppose it to have been large, for, with the help of the feeble taper, I could scarcely distinguish the walls.

I then desired my young companions to follow, and giving one taper with little ceremony to the abbess, said to her, 'Forward!'

One by one the delicate candle flames sprang from the taper and a soft light illumined the pale rich chamber.