13 adjectives to describe wicks

The following is the plan by which I have succeeded best in the production of transparencies: [Illustration] B is a lamp with a circular wick, which burns petroleum and gives a good body of light.

Both journals of the connecting rod are furnished with oil cups, having a small tube in the centre with siphon wicks.

The flare of the crude wicks, up along the door, showed its tremendous solidity.

He rolled up his sleeves, and, picking up a double wick, dipped it in the pan, and then hung it on the first peg for the tallow to set.

The flaming wick of the lamp, which floats like a tiny burning ship in a miniature lake of rancid grease, absorbs the vital air of the polog, and returns it in the shape of carbonic acid gas, oily smoke, and sickening odours.

He threw a light coverlet over the helpless figure and replacing the shade on the lamp, turned down the flaring wick.

"Be quick, man alive," the stranger cried impatiently, turning sharply round upon the farmer, who was trimming an incorrigible wick with a pair of blunted snuffers.

The usual smile of ecstatic admiration spread over Jules's features as he touched the match to the simulated wicks, and lighted into life the rainbows in the prisms underneath.

He did the same with all the rest, and by the time he had the thirty-sixth wick hung up, No. 1 was ready to be taken down and dipped again.

Sometimes the oil hole will choke, or the syphon wick for conducting the oil from the oil cup into the central pipe leading to the bearing will become clogged with mucilage from the oil.

Day has made an excellent little blubber lamp for lighting; it has an annular wick and talc chimney; a small circular plate over the wick conducts the heat down and raises the temperature of combustion, so that the result is a clear white flame.

They may be illustrated by two lamps, one of which burns a long time with very little oil, because it has a very thin wick; and the other just as long, though it has a very thick one, because there is plenty of oil to feed it.

Ah! friend, you little knew How long at that celestial wick The angels labored diligent; Extinguished, now, for you!

13 adjectives to describe  wicks