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Look up: wick

  1. wick
    [n] - any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action 2. [n] - a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. wick
    a strip of plaited material,usually cotton,which by capillary action draws liquid fuel from a reservoir to a burner Category: The chemical industry • length of loosely woven fabric used in pre-cured retread systems to allow free passage of air to atmosphere.In hot retreading wicks may be...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Wick
    Wick noun [ Middle English wicke , weyke , weke , Anglo-Saxon weoca or wecca ; confer Dutch wiek a roll of lint, Prov. German wicke , and wieche , Old High German wiohha , Swedish ve...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/36

  4. Wick
    Wick intransitive verb (Curling) To strike a stone in an oblique direction. Jamieson.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/36

  5. wick
    noun a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Wick
    • (n.) Alt. of Wich • (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 illumina...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. Wick
    royal burgh (town) and fishing port, Highland council area, historic county of Caithness, Scotland. An ancient Norse settlement on the North Sea, ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/w/34

  8. wick
    thread, strip, or bundle of fibres that, by capillary action, draws up the oil of a lamp or the melted wax in a candle to be burned. By 1000 , wicks ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/w/34

  9. Wick
    Wick is British slang for the penis.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  10. Wick
    Wick is British slang for the penis.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  11. Wick
    Wick, town (1991 pop. 7,770), Highland, N Scotland, on Wick Bay at the mouth of the Wick River. The town consists of the villages of Louisburgh, Old Wick, and Pulteneytown. It is an important port for whitefish. Tourism is economically important; the area's famous glass-blowing factory is an attract...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A085

  12. WICK
    `WICK` is an AM broadcasting radio station licensed to the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania and serves the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton radio market. The station broadcasts at a frequency of 1400 kHz with 1,000 Watts with a non-directional signal pattern. The station is owned by Bold Gold Media. In 2006, the...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WICK

  13. Wick
    (ward) `Wick` is a ward in the London Borough of Hackney that forms part of the Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency. It fully covers the area of Hackney Wick and includes the part of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics being built in the Borough. The ward returns three councillors ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick

  14. Wick
    (hieroglyph) The Ancient Egyptian `Wick hieroglyph` is Gardiner sign listed no. V28 for the wick of a lamp. The wick hieroglyph is used in the Ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs for the alphabetic consonant letter `h`. A second and equivalent `h` hieroglyph is the plan view of a reed sh...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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