noun

• (countable) A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.
  "Trim the wick fairly short, so that the flame does not smoke."
• (countable) A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.
  "There liues vvithin the very flame of loue / A kind of weeke or ſnufe that vvill abate it, […]"
• (countable) A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.
• (countable, euphemistic, slang) Often in dip one's wick: the penis.
  "His wick was stone stiff."

verb

• (transitive) Of a material (especially a textile): to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
  "The fabric wicks perspiration away from the body."
• (intransitive)
• (intransitive)
  "The moisture slowly wicked through the wood."

noun

• (obsolete except dialectal) A hamlet or village; also, a town.
  "And by report, there vvere eight thouſand Gaules there ſlaine: the reſt abandoned the vvarre, and ſlipt every one into their ovvne vvickes and villages."
• (obsolete except dialectal, chiefly East Anglia and Essex) A farm; specifically, a dairy farm.
  "Note a fearme [farm] in the North parts is called a Tacke, in Lancaſhire a Fermeholt, in Eſſex a Wike."
• (obsolete) An enclosed piece of land; a close.

adj

• (Northern England, chiefly Yorkshire) Synonym of quick (“alive, living; also, active, lively”).
  "Well! yo must know I were in th' Infirmary for a fever, and times were rare and bad; and there be good chaps there to a man, while he's wick, whate'er they may be about cutting him up at after."