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A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated. In Fortune's lottery lies A heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize. Dryden.

sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink. That tickling rheums Should ever tease the lungs and blear the sight. Cowper. To blear the eye of, to deceive; to impose upon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

Swinish; brutal; cruel. In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs. Shak.

To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire. At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. Sir W. Scott.

To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.] Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton.

ssengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

An office where passage tickets are sold. [Eng.]

apon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, acco…

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct. Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof. Palfrey.

One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches. Knight.

The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping. Knight.

A pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small ship stick.

Embroidery. [Archaic] The golden broidery tender Milkah wove. Tickell.

A broomstick. [Obs.] Shak.

nsists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

ly, a leather waistcoat; afterward, one of cloth of a buff color. [Obs.] Nares. -- Buff stick (Mech.), a strip of wood covered with buff leather, used in polishing.

See Beggar's ticks.

a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed, and not to be set on a candlestick Mark iv. 21.

A bust; a statue. With some antick bustoes in the niches. Ashmole.