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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.

A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.

A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

ngel] sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the race of fiends. Dryden.

nes. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.

One who stickles. Specifically: --

To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court. [Obs.] Rich men they claw, soothe up, and flatter; the poor they contemn and despise. Holland.

fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc. The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o'the sere. Shak.

ing, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar.

An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia.

To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle. A person accustomed to higgle about taps. Jeffry. To truck and higgle for a private good. Emerson.

To tickle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [Written also kittel.] Halliwell. Jamieson.

In another manner. [Obs.] He would have tickled you othergates. Shak.

The stickleback.

als of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other. Sir W. Raleigh. Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. Pope.

A stickler for rules; a slave of rules [R.] Hare.