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öl.), a European shrimp (Pasiphæa sivado) having a very thin, compressed body. -- Sword stick, a sword cane. -- To measure swords with one. See under Measure, v. t. -- To put to the sword. See under Put.

Sticky; adhesive; raw; -- said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried. [U. S.]

One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.

A venomous South African tick. Livingstone.

An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.

Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive. "Female feet, too weak to struggle with tenacious clay." Cowper.

ing walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes. Fairholt.

A slice; a skimmer; a spatula; a pudding stick. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ainsworth.

A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull. Entick.

To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.

serving from the beginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, a through line; a through ticket; a through train. Also, admitting of passage through; as, a through bridge. Through bolt, a bolt which passes through all the thickness or layers of that which it fastens, or in which it is fixed. -- Through bridge, a brid…

A tick. See 2d Tick. [Obs.]

A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding. So they prepared timber . . . to build the house. 1 Kings v. 18. Many of the timb…

nsation, or a slight pricking sensation. They suck pollution through their tingling vein. Tickell.

ch a small piece of wood pointed at both ends, called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly into the air. In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand. Macaulay.

To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather. The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope.

The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation. A. Tucker.

Tending or serving to titillate, or tickle; tickling.

The three-spined stickleback. [Prov. Eng.]

To beat with a stick. [Prov. Eng.]