noun
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a length of loose twist or braid of soft threads, which in a candle, lamp, oil stove or the like, serves to draw up the melted tallow or wax or the oil (which is lighted at the open end); a wick.
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such a length of wick soaked in tallow or smeared with an inflamable chemical, used to light an explosive.
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a long, usu. slender piece of tallow or wax with an embedded wick that is burned to give light; a candle.
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a thin, soft cord soaked in a medicine, pushed into the rectum to cause a bowel movement.
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an incense stick.
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a cylindrical roll filled with or to be filled with finely cut tobacco cured for smoking (as of cigarette, bīdi, etc.).
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(fig.) a baby that is just born of a few months old.