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Ticklish; kittle. Sir W. Scott.

A lamp or candlestick. [R.] By him who 'mid the golden lampads went. Trench.

Barking. [Obs.] Tickell.

brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called also latten brass. He had a cross of latoun full of stones. Chaucer.

yphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks.

wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.

(rarely, of things), esp. when having a common purpose or sentiment; as, the line-up at a ticket- office window; the line-up of political factions.

r the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance.

A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character. Pope.

ng practice; -- often in a bad sense. Mark with what management their tribes divide Some stick to you, and some to t'other side. Dryden.

To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner. Meek modern faith to murder, hack, and maul. Pope.

A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist.

The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack. Mesh stick, a stick on which the mesh is formed in netting.

To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.

Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.

A being subject to death; a human being; man. "Warn poor mortals left behind." Tickell.

Somewhat mucky; soft, sticky, and dirty; muxy. [Prov. Eng.] R. D. Blackmore.

An alehouse; a pothouse. Tickel.

A walking-stick insect. [Texas]

tter. Peace, you mumbling fool. Shak. A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself. Otway.