Definition of wick

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Wick (n.) A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned..

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Argand Lamp :: Argand lamp () A lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame.
Wick :: Wick (v. i.) To strike a stone in an oblique direction.
Facinorous :: Facinorous (a.) Atrociously wicked.
Cord :: Cord (n.) Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity..
Enormous :: Enormous (a.) Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime..
Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top..
Unpitious :: Unpitious (a.) Impious; wicked.
Darkness :: Darkness (n.) A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity..
Bigot :: Bigot (n.) A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion..
Wicked :: Wicked (a.) Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous.
Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A small gate or door, especially one forming part of, or placed near, a larger door or gate; a narrow opening or entrance cut in or beside a door or gate, or the door which is used to close such entrance or aperture. Piers Plowman..
Out-herod :: Out-Herod (v. t.) To surpass (Herod) in violence or wickedness; to exceed in any vicious or offensive particular.
Gabion :: Gabion (n.) A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire..
Hellish :: Hellish (a.) Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical.
Wicke :: Wicke (a.) Wicked.
Ill-lived :: Ill-lived (a.) Leading a wicked life.
Turpitude :: Turpitude (n.) Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity..
Flagrant :: Flagrant (a.) Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.
Naughtiness :: Naughtiness (n.) The quality or state of being naughty; perverseness; badness; wickedness.
Barrow :: Barrow (n.) A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain..
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