(now dialectal) A corner of the mouth or eye.

A bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre/fiber, or other porous material in a candle, oil lamp, kerosene heater, or the like, that draws up liquid fuel, such as melted tallow, wax, or the oil, delivering it to the base of the flame for conversion to gases and burning; any other length of material burned for illumination in small successive portions.

(transitive) To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.

(Britain, obsolete, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Liveliness; life. / (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.

(Britain, dialect, derogatory, chiefly Yorkshire) Alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.

(Britain, dialect, chiefly East Anglia and Essex) A farm, especially a dairy farm.

Obsolete form of wicked.

simple past tense and past participle of wick

(UK, dialect, obsolete) Active; brisk. / (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Infested with maggots. / Alternative form of wick, as applying to inanimate objects only.

Having a wick.