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The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness. They're darker now than blackness. Donne.

Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.] A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton.

A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel- shaped entrance at one end.

The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping. Knight.

n can not brook restraint. Spenser. Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to the wicked ten Macaulay.

act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off. As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen. Shak. And from the boughts brush off the evil dew. Milton. To brush aside, to remove from one's way, as with a brush. -- To brush away, to remove, as…

Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable. Arnold had sped his caitiff flight. W. Irving.

A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shak.

d also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it.

French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superbundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.

Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind. Be thy intents wicked or charitable, . . . . . . I will speak to thee. Shak.

That which is pursued or hunted. Nay, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase, For I myself must hunt this deer to death. Shak.

or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion. J. W. Chadwick.

also, a learned profession. [Obs.] Sophictry . . . rhetoric, and other cleargy. Guy of Warwick. Put their second sons to learn some clergy. State Papers (1515).

rated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perfprated metal, or the like.

of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome. A comprisal . . . and sum of all wickedness. Barrow.

Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous. Conscienceless and wicked patrons. Hookre.

An associate; an accomplice. [Archaic] "Wicked consociates." Bp. Hall.

A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt.

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. The knots that tangle human creeds, The wounding cords that bind and strain The heart until it bleeds. Tennyson.