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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 ticket for transportation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance, as increase of travel; specif., a ticket for a certain number of, or for daily, trips between neighboring places at a reduced rate, such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb. Commutation…

A certificate given to one who prosecutes a felon to conviction, exempting him from certain parish and ward offices.

To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket one into a playhouse.

ar or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets. Bacon.

The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the tickets or coverts of a forest. Spelman. Cowell.

Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.

A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.

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.

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.]

a regular payment, chargeable to the land, for the annual tithes in kind. -- Commutation ticket, a ticket, as for transportation, which is the evidence of a contract for service at a reduced rate. See 2d Commute, 2.

f the nature of, or containing, a compliment; as, a complimentary remark; a complimentary ticket. "Complimentary addresses." Prescott.

e, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life. A d'amond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. Shak. Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. Shak.

A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.

e mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.

One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc. [Colloq. U. S.]

To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods.

To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize.