wicked 
ful; immoral; bad: wrong; iniquitous: a word 
of comprehensive signitifation, including ev- 
erything that is contrary to the moral law, 
and applied both to persons and to their acts : 
as, a (CicA-erf man ; a wicked deed; iciekedwsiya; 
icicked lives: a wicked heart; wicked designs; 
tricked works. 
Thei ben fulle icykked .Sarruzines and cruelle. 
Mandevitte, Travels, p. 112. 
To see this would deter a doubtful man 
From mischievous intents, much more the practice 
01 what is irickeil. Beau, and Fl., Kni^Xitol Malta, iv. 1. 
Are men less ashamed of being nicked than absurd? 
Jon Bee. Essay on Samuel Foote. 
To do an injury openly is, in his estimation, as leicked 
08 to do it secretly, and far less profitable. 
Maeaulay, Machiavelli. 
2t. Vile; baneful; pernicious; no.xious. 
That wynde away the wicked ayer may hurle. 
Palladius, Husljondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 175. 
Faire Araorett must dwell in icicked chaines. 
Spenser, f. Q., III. ix. 24, 
As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd 
With raven's feather from unwholesome fen 
Drop on you both. Shak., Tempest, i. 2. 321. 
3t. Troublesome; difficult; hard; painful; un- 
favorable ; disagreeable. 
Hony is the more swete yif mowthes have fyrst tasted sa 
vourea that ben iryckyd. Chaucer, Boethius, iii. meter 1. 
The wallis in werre wikked to assaile 
With depe dikes and derke doubuU of water. 
Detraction of Troy (l^ E. T. S.), 1. 1565. 
But this lande is full icicked to be wrought, 
To hardde in hete, and over softe in weete. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. .S.), p. 49. 
I pray, what 's good, sir, for a icicked toothy 
Middleton (and others). The Widow, iv. 1. 
4. Mischievous; prone or disposed to mischief, 
often good-natured mischief ; roguish : as, a 
Kicked urchin. [Colloq.] 
Pen looked uncommonly icicked. 
Thackeray, Pendemiis, xxvii. 
The wicked one, the devil. — wicked Bible. See Bible. 
=tolL L Illegal, Immoral, etc. (see criminal), Heinoiut, 
Ir^famowt, etc. (see atrocious), uniighteotis, profane, un- 
godly, godless, impious, unprincipled, vile. al>andoned, 
profligate. 
Il.t «• ■■'iiiy- and ;*/. A wicked person; one 
who is or those who are wicked. 
Then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall 
consume. 2 Thes. ii. ». 
There lay his body vjiburied all that Friday, and the 
morrow till afternoone, none daring to deliver his body to 
the sepulture; his head there icicked Umk. and, nayling 
thereon his hoode, they flxe it on a pole, and set it on 
London Bridge. Stowe, Annals (1605), p. 45s. 
wicked''^ (wik'ed), ft. [< ir(f/,-8 -I- -<;(/2, here mere- 
ly an adj. extension.] Quick; active, [ftov. 
Eng.] 
Another Irishwoman of diminutive stature complacent- 
ly described herself to a lady hiring her services as ''small 
but icicked." A. S. Palmer, Folk-Etym., Int., p. xxii. 
■wickedly (wik'ed-li), iidv. [< ME. wikkedbj, 
wickedii, wikkedlielie ; < wicked^ ■¥ -ly^.] In n 
wicked manner. 
Ho keppit hym full kaiitly, kobbit with hyin sore, 
Woundii hym icickedlit in hir wode angur. 
Oextnu-tion of Troy (E. E. T, S,), 1. 110'25. 
I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. 
2 Sam. xxiv. 17. 
wickedness (wik'ed-nes), «. [< ME. wikked- 
ne.H.ie ; < wicked + -hc.i.i, C{. ME. wiekciicfi, wike- 
nenKe. wikncs, < icicke (see wick"!) + -«<■,«.] 1. 
Wicked character, iiuality, or disposition; de- 
pravity or con-uption of heart ; evil disi)Osition ; 
sinfulness: as, the niekediienn <if a man or of an 
action. 
And al the icikkednesse in this worlde that man myste 
worche or thynke 
Ne is no more to the mercye of f Jod than in the see a glede. 
Piers Plowman (B), v, 291. 
And after thi mercies that ben fele, 
Ijiul, fordo my wich/dnesse. 
Political Poems, etc, (ed. Furnivall), p. 251. 
Goodness belongs to the tinds, Piety to Men, Revenge 
and Wickedness U> the bevils. Ilawell, Letters, ii. 11. 
2. Wicked conduct 
morality: vice 
Tis not go<Ki that children should know any unckedness. 
Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 2. 134. 
There is a method in man',"* wickedness ; 
It grows up by degrees. Beau, and Ft. 
3. A wicked thing or act; an act of ini(iuity. 
What wickedness is this that is dcjiie among yon? 
.Judges XX, 12, 
I'll never care what wickedness I do 
If this man come to good, 
Shak., Lear, iii. 7. 99. 
4. Figuratively, the wicked. 
Those tents thou sawest so ])leasunt were the tents 
Of wickedness. .Villon. P. L.. xi, fi(i7, 
= Byil. rnrighteousness, villainy, rascality, knavery, atro- 
city, iniquity, enormity. See references iimltiv icicked. 
evil practices; active im- 
criirie; sin. 
6910 
wlcken (wik'n), ». [Appar. connected with 
wick^, wicker^, witch-elm, etc.; but early forms 
have not been found.] The mountain-ash or 
rowan-tree, Pijrus Aucuparia. Also wickij. 
■wicken-tree (wik'n-tre), n. Same as wicken. 
■wickeri (wik'er), )i. and a. [Also dial, wiggcr: 
< ME. *wiker, wijkijr; cf. Sw. dial, vikkir, vekker, 
vekare, the sweet bay-leaved willow, = Dan. 
dial, vogger, vegre, also voge, a pliant rod, withy 
(vogre-kurv, vegre-ktin; wicker-basket), reeger, 
vxggei; a willow; ef. Bav. dial, wickcl, buncli of 
tow on a distaff, G. wickel, a roll; ult. < AS. «•("- 
can, etc., bend, yield: see icicA-l and wenk.^ I. 
H. 1. A small pliant twig; an osier; a withe. 
Which hoops are knit as with wickers. 
Wood, .\thente Oxon., I. (Richardson.) 
For want of a pannier, spit your fish by the gills on a 
small icicker or such like. 
W. Lauson (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 197). 
Aye wavering like the willow-»ctdtfr, 
Tween good and ill. Burns, On Life. 
2. Wickerwork in general; hence, an object 
made of this material, as a basket. 
Then quick did dress 
His half milk up for cheese, and in a press 
Of icicker press'd it. Chapman, Odyssey, ix. 351, 
Each [maiden] having a white ivicker, overbrimm'd 
With April's tender younglings. Keats, Endymion, i. 
3. A twig or branch used as a mark: same as 
wike'-^. 
II, a. 1. Consisting of wicker; especially, 
made of plaited twigs or osiers; also, covered 
with wickerwork: as, a wicker basket ; a wicker 
chair. 
Robin Hood swam to a bush of broome, 
The fryer to a ici(/ger wand, 
Jtolrin Hoodand the Curtail Fr!/er(Child's Ballads, V. 274). 
The lady was placed in a large wicker chair, and her 
feet wrapped up in tlannel, supported by cushions, 
Steele, Tatler, No, 266, 
The doll, seated in her little wicker carriage. 
Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, Int,, p, 40. 
widdy 
half-high door. IC. H. Knight.^5\. A hole or 
opening. 
Wickettes two or three thou make hem couthe, 
That yf a wicked worme oon holes mouthe 
Besiege or stoppe, an other open be. 
And from the wicked worme thus save thi bee, 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E, T, S.), p, 39. 
6. In cricket: (a) The object at which the 
bowler aims, and before which, but a little on 
one side, the batsman stands. It consists of 
three stumps, having two bails lying in grooves 
along their tops. See cricket^ (with diagram). 
The wicket was formerly two straight thin battons called 
stumps, twenty-two inches high, which were fixed into the 
ground perpendicularly six inches apart, and over the top 
of both was laid a small round piece of wood called the 
bail. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 175. 
A desperate fight . . . between the drovers and the 
farmers with their whips and the l)oys with cricket-bats 
and wickets. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 4. 
{!>) A batsman's tenure of his wicket, if the bat- 
ting side pass their opponents' full score with (say) six 
players to be put out, they are said to win "by six u^k- 
ets"—a. colloquial abbreviation for "with six wickets to 
go down." (c) The ground on which the wickets 
are set: as, play was begun with an excellent 
wicket. — 7. In coal-mining. See wicket-work. 
■wicket-door (wik'et-dor), «. A wicket. 
Through the low wicket-door they glide. 
Scott, Rokeby, v. 29. 
wicket-ga'te (wik'et-gat), ». A small gate; a 
wicket. 
I am going to yonder wicketyate before me. 
Banyan, Pilgrim's Progress, i. 
■wicket-keeper (wlk'et-ke-'per), h. In cricket, 
the player belonging to the fielding side who 
stands immediately behind the wicket to stop 
such balls as pass it. See diagram under 
cricket''^. 
"I'm your man," said he. " Wicket-keeper, cover-point, 
slip, or long-stop — you bowl the twisters, I'll do the field- 
ing for you." Whyte ilelcille. White Rose, II. xiii. 
2. Made of flexible strips of shaved wood, ■wicket-work (wik'et-wei-k), «. In eonl-minimi, 
ratan, or the like : as, wicker furniture ; a wicker 
chair. 
■wickerH (wik'er), r. «. [iwicker^, n.'] To cover 
or lit witli wickers or osiers ; inclose in wicker- 
work. 
He looks like a musty bottle new wickered. 
B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, i. 1. 
Thir Ships of light timber, Wickerd with Oysier l)etweerie, 
and coverd over with Leather, serv'd not therefore to 
tranceport them farr. Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. 
■wicker'-' (wik'er), )'. [Cf. H'/cA-er'.] I. iiitroii.s: 
To twist, from being too tightly drawn. Vhild'n 
Biilludu, Gloss. 
The nurice she knet the knot, 
And O she knet it sicker ; 
The ladie did gie it a twig [twitch]. 
Till it began to wicker. 
Laird of Wariestoun (Child's Ballads, III. iii.). 
II. traiLs. To twist (a thread) overmuch, .fti- 
miisoii. [Scotch.] 
■wickered (wik'erd), a. [< wicker'i -I- -<■,'/'-'] 1. 
Ma(le of wicker. 
a variety of ]>illar and stall work sometimes 
adoi>ted in tlie North Wales coal-field. The 
headings or stalls (called wickets) are sometimes as much 
as 24 yards wide, and the pillars as much as 15. Two 
roadways are generally cai-ried up each wicket. 
■wicking (wik'ing), ii. [< wick^ + -iiig^.J The 
material of which wicks are made, as in long 
pieces which can be cut at pleasure. 
Generally the traces of nuisk-cattle are in mass — like 
balls all melted together. ... It struck me it would 
make capital wicking for Esquimaux lamps. 
C, F. Hall, Polar Expedition (1876), p. 161. 
wickiup, ■wicky-up (wik'i-up), h. [Amer. Ind.] 
An American Indian house or hut ; especially, 
a rude hut, as of brushwood, such as is built by 
the Apaches and other low tribes: in distinc- 
tion from the tepee of skins stretched on stacked 
lodge-poles. Wickiups are built on the spot as 
required, and are not moved. 
After an hour's riding to the south, we came upon old 
Indian icicky-ups. Amer. Antiquarian, XII, 205, 
2. Covered with wickerwork. _,. ,,.».. , ,, „. ,, . 
Wickerwork (wik'er-w6rk), H. Basketwork of Wickllffite, «. and » See ri //<■/,«<■. 
any sort; anvthing plaited, woven, or wattled Wlck-trimmer (wik trim"er),«. Apair of seis- 
of flexible aild tough materials, as osier, ratan, -'^ors or sliears tor trimming wieks; a pair of 
and shaved strips of wood. *'!'"i z'^'., /., , - ,, ,. , ,-.^. 
Wicket (wik'et), 11. [< ME. wicket, iciket, wykct, Wicky (wik i), h ; pi. wjckies (-iz). [Cf. wicken.^ 
vikct = MI), ii-ickct, also irincket, < OF. *wikcl, \- ,*'"""^' "« "^^"*c''-— 2. Same as sheep-lmirel. 
wi.^krt, ri,/i,et. i/iiiehet, F. guicliet (Walloon wi- SJPViS,P' "' ,'' "'"t"'^'\,- ,- ■ 
diet) = Pr. gui.-;(ji,et, a wicket ; a dim. form, prob. Wicllffite,^'. and „. See 11 yclijite. 
ult. from the verb seen in AS. wicaii, etc., give 
way: see wick'^, wcak.'i 1. A small gate or door- 
way, especially a small door or gate forming 
part of a larger one. 
When the buernes of the burgli were broght vpon slepe, 
He jsiiion] warpit vp a tcicket. wan bom with-oute. 
Destruction of Troy (E, E. T. ,S.), I, 11923. 
The clyket 
That Januarie bar of the smale icyket 
By which into his gardyn ofte he wente. 
Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, I. 874. 
They steeked them a' but a wee wicket, 
.And Lammikiu crap in. 
Lammikin (Child's Ballads, III. 308), 
"O, haste thee, Wilfrid ! " Redmond cried; 
" Undo that wicket by thy side ! " 
Scott, Rokeby, v, 29, 
2t. A hole through which to communicate, or to 
view what passes without ; a window, lookout, 
loophole, or the like. 
They have made barris to barre the dorys crosse weyse, 
and they have made wykets on every qmirter of the hwse 
to schote owte atte, bothe with bt)wys and with hand 
gunnys. Poston Letters, I. «:j: \7i(JdoWt 
3. A small gate by which the chamber of a ividow^. 
canal-lock is empticil; also, a gate in the chute 'Widdy', widdie (wid'i) 
of a water-wheel, designed to regulate the withy, :). 
amount of water passing to the wheel.— 4. A widdy- (wid'i), ti. A dialectal foi'ni of widowK 
Wicopy (wik'6-pi), H. [Also wikop, wiciij), wick- 
iijt; of Amer. Ind. origin.] 1. Tlie leatherwood, 
Virctt jxilii.'itrib: — 2. One of the willow-herbs, 
as Epilohium ungiistifoliiim, E. liticnrc, and per- 
haps other species: distinguished as Indian or 
herh wicopy. See willow-herb. 
Wid (wi<l), jircp. All obsolete or dialectal form 
of «■/«(!. 
Sifter hole water same ez a tray. 
Ef yon fill it wid moss en dob it ind clay, 
J. C. Harris, Tncle Renms, xxii, 
widbin (wid'bin), n. [A dial, form of wood- 
hiue.'\ 1. The woodbine, Lonicera I'criclyme- 
niim. [Scotch.] 
The rawn-tree in [and] the widdbin 
Hand the witches on cum in, 
Qreyor, Folk-lore N, E, Scotland, (Britten and Holland.) 
2. Tlie dogwood, Cornn.f aangiiinca. [Prov. 
Fng.] - Widbin pear-tree, the whitebeam, Pi/ms Aria. 
[Prov, EnK,i 
■widdershinst (wid'er-shinz), adf. See wither- 
.sjtiits. 
md ('. An obsolete spelling of 
Dialectal forms of 
