Coning

Ear candling, also called coning, involves hollow candles made from a cylinder of fabric covered with wax. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But he knew that the biggest risk he faced was an increased swelling in the brain that can result in "coning", where the brain stem sinks into the spinal cord, resulting in death. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Here's one way to stop that drive-thru coning epidemic: make the inside of your restaurant more fun than the outside. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It looked a very brutal game, shown by how bloody Shaw looked after only coning on with 20 minutes to go. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The plot: Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000 but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for coning an American and a dog. ❋ X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut (2010)

You clearly illustrate how to keep coning down the focus. ❋ Janice Hardy (2010)

Some farmers were busy winnowing the crop on the road, coning off one side of it for a fifty-yard stretch with an infant sat down at either end, presumably calculating that, although drivers would certainly run over cones, they might just think twice about children. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

A long elegant neck, coning down to a sharpened tip on one end and flaring slightly towards the stern, with chrome testicles like underslung engines, streamlined to minimise air resistance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I really enjoy the process of ear coning or ear candling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My colleague then stays at this position coning and signing and I run back to the bridge. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2007)

I have high hope for the Amy Poehler sit-com coning along in a few weeks. ❋ Ed Gorman (2009)

TINA FEY, "30 ROCK": I want to thank my daughter Alice for being the funniest person in my family, for coning phrases like "I want to go to there" and sometimes just putting on pretend makeup in the mirror and she will turn to me and say, "I look like Barack Obama," has somehow gotten it in her head that it's a good thing to resemble a famous politician. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He's a sleazy pimp with one Shaniqua and two coning up. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Lockheed Electra had a really cool coning instability in the engine mounts that occasionally, and for quite a while mysteriously, would tear off a wing. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

But what do expect coning from a "less than professional" administration. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The usual Al Quaeda tape will be coning out about the same time, manufactured by the Republicans, to warn us to not vote Republican Osama Bin Rove. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Sometime I am coning to try to find the data in a more raw form and rebuild it but not today. ❋ Unknown (2006)

On the Avenida 16 de Julio, in the snarl of cars and trucks trailing paper streamers, I started hyperventilating and sat dizzy on the sidewalk coning my hands over my mouth as horns and catcalls shrieked all around me. ❋ Unknown (2004)