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

See Ticking. [R.] R. Browning.

One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc. Ticker tape Tape from or designed to be used in a stock ticker, usu. of paper and being narrow but long. -- Stock ticker, an electro-mechanical information receiving device connected by telegraphic wire to a st…

ctures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors. Fuller.

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

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.

auses laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted. If you tickle us, do we not laugh Shak.

Uncertain; inconstant; slippery. [Obs. & R.] Beau. & Fl.

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

Unsteadiness. [Obs.] For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness. Chaucer.

One who, or that which, tickles.

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

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

A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack. A game at ticktack with words. Milton.

A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.

A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed.

The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.

To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce. Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.

One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.

A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein. Youatt.