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- adjective obsolete Wicked.
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- adjective Obsolete form of
wicked .
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Examples
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The flame of mount Hecla (sayth he) will not burne towe (which is most apt matter for the wicke of a candle) neither is it quenched with water.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The flame of mount Hecla (sayth he) will not burne towe (which is most apt matter for the wicke of a candle) neither is it quenched with water.
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Clerkes munekes ⁊ kanunes. þar boþ þos gode wicke tunes.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Wicks were made of loosely spun hemp or tow, or of cotton; from the milkweed which grows so plentifully in our fields and roads to-day the children gathered in late summer the silver "silk-down" which was "spun grossly into candle wicke."
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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V.S. Laxman and Mahendra S.ngh Dhoni bought up unbeaten half centuries in a record 164-run partnership for the seventh wicke ...
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ians 2010
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V.S. Laxman and Mahendra S.ngh Dhoni bought up unbeaten half centuries in a record 164-run partnership for the seventh wicke ...
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Sirshendu Panth 2010
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In the midst of the church stood 12. waxe tapers of two yards long, and a fathom about in bignesse, and there stands a kettle full of waxe with about 100. weight, wherein there is alwayes the wicke of a candle burning, as it were a lampe which goeth not out day nor night.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The flame of mount Hecla (sayth he) will not burne towe (which is most apt matter for the wicke of a candle) neither is it quenched with water.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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India Vs SriLanka-2nd ODI 2009-Highlights IND v SL one day Cricket match-SL won by 3 wicke
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Joy has betowed my heart like a rose that had been plucked but this rose had thorns and your heart is wicke This is the first time I actually like how Moltres is done, I wish it was a little more like this in the official works.
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