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ing ticket, an order to leave; dismissal, as from office. [Colloq.] Bartlett. -- Walking stick. (a) A stick or staff carried in the hand for hand for support or amusement when walking; a cane. (b) (Zoöl.) A stick insect; -- called also walking straw. See Illust. of Stick insect, under Stick. -- Walking wheel (Mach.),…

A small stick; a rod; a verge. With good smart blows of a wand on his back. Locke.

or jointed cane, of the genus Phyllostachys. The slender stems are much used for walking sticks. [Written also whanghee.]

ing or platting with twigs; also, the network so formed. Made with a wattling of canes or sticks. Dampier.

, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something. Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast. Dryden.

A throwing toy, or implement, of the Australian aborigines, consisting of a cigar-shaped stick fastened at one end to a flexible twig. It weighs in all about two ounces, and is about two feet long.

Chips made by one who whittles; shavings cut from a stick with a knife.

A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding.

A rod; a stick; a staff. [Obs.] P. Plowman. If men smote it with a yerde. Chaucer.

A yardstick. Tennyson.

us deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs Shak. At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation. W. Irving.

infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummomd light.