Tick () Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.

Tick () To go on trust, or credit.

Tick () To give tick; to trust.

Tick () Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals. When filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs.

Tick () Any one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under Bird) and sheep tick (see under Sheep).

Tick () The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.

Tick () Ticking. See Ticking, n.

Ticked () of Tick

Ticking () of Tick

Tick () To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.

Tick () To strike gently; to pat.

Tick () A quick, audible beat, as of a clock.

Tick () Any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check.

Tick () The whinchat; -- so called from its note.

Tick () To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.

Ticken () See Ticking.

Ticker () One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.

Ticket () A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.

Ticket () A little note or notice.

Ticket () A tradesman's bill or account.

Ticket () 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.

Ticket () A label to show the character or price of goods.

Ticket () A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.

Ticket () A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.

Ticketed () of Ticket

Ticketing () of Ticket

Ticket () To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.

Ticket () To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California.

Ticketing () A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.

Ticking () 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.

Tickled () of Tickle

Tickling () of Tickle

Tickle () 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.

Tickle () To please; to gratify; to make joyous.

Tickle () To feel titillation.

Tickle () To excite the sensation of titillation.

Tickle () Ticklish; easily tickled.

Tickle () Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant.

Tickle () Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.

Tickle-footed () Uncertain; inconstant; slippery.

Ticklenburg () A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies.

Tickleness () Unsteadiness.

Tickler () One who, or that which, tickles.

Tickler () Something puzzling or difficult.

Tickler () A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity.

Tickler () A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.

Ticklish () Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.

Ticklish () Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.

Ticklish () Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business.

Tickseed () A seed or fruit resembling in shape an insect, as that of certain plants.

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