Death tick. (Zoöl.) See Deathwatch.
Tick, v. t. To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to
score.
When I had got all my responsibilities down upon my list, I compared
each with the bill and ticked it off.
Dickens.
Tick"en (?), n. See Ticking. [R.] R. Browning.
Tick"er (?), n. [See Tick.] One who, or that which, ticks, or produces
a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.
Tick"et (?), n. [F. étiquette a label, ticket, fr. OF. estiquette, or
OF. etiquet, estiquet; both of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stick.
See Stick, n. & v., and cf. Etiquette, Tick credit.] A small piece of
paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or
distinguishing token of something. Specifically: —
(a) A little note or notice. [Obs. or Local]
He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years,
giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school
doors.
Fuller.
(b) A tradesman's bill or account. [Obs.]
Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came
the phrase on tick. See 1st Tick.
Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets On ticket for his
mistress.
J. Cotgrave.
(c) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of
assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a
railroad or steamboat ticket.
(d) A label to show the character or price of goods.
(e) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for
distributing money, goods, or the like.
(f) (Politics) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an
election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot. [U.
S.]
The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes.
Sarah Franklin (1766).
Scratched ticket, a ticket from which the names of one or more of the
candidates are scratched out. — Split ticket, a ticket representing
different divisions of a party, or containing candidates selected from
two or more parties. — Straight ticket, a ticket containing the regular
nominations of a party, without change. — Ticket day (Com.), the day
before the settling or pay day on the stock exchange, when the names of
the actual purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another.
[Eng.] Simmonds. — Ticket of leave, a license or permit given to a
convict, or prisoner of the crown, to go at large, and to labor for
himself before the expiration of his sentence, subject to certain
specific conditions. [Eng.] Simmonds. — Ticket porter, a licensed
porter wearing a badge by which he may be identified. [Eng.]
Tick"et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ticketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Ticketing.] 1.
To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.
2. To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to
California. [U. S.]
Tick"et*ing, n. A periodical sale of ore in the English mining
districts; — so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids
of the buyers.
Tick"ing (?), n. [From Tick a bed cover. Cf. Ticken.] A strong, closely
woven linen or cotton fabric, of which ticks for beds are made. It is
usually twilled, and woven in stripes of different colors, as white and
blue; — called also ticken.
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Tic"kle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tickled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tickling
(?).] [Perhaps freq. of tick to beat; pat; but cf. also AS. citelian to
tickle, D. kittelen, G. kitzlen, OHG. chizziln, chuzziln, Icel. kitla.
Cf. Kittle, v. t.] 1. To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar
thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of
spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
Shak.