<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A bundle or loose twist or braid of soft threads, or a woven strip or tube, as of cotton or asbestos, which in a candle, lamp, oil stove, cigarette lighter, or the like, serves to draw up the melted tallow or wax or the oil or other flammable liquid to be burned.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>To draw off (liquid) by capillary action.</li></ul>