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verb

Tick v. t. To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score. "When I had got all my responsibilities down upon my list, I compared each with the bill and ticked it off."

Tick v. i.

To go on trust, or credit.

To give tick; to trust.

Tick v. i. (past & past part. ticked; pres. part. ticking)

To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.

To strike gently; to pat. "Stand not ticking and toying at the branches."

noun

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

Tick n. (Zool.)

(a)

Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals. When filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs.

(b)

Any one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under Bird) and sheep tick (see under Sheep).

Tick bean, a small bean used for feeding horses and other animals.

Tick trefoil (Bot.), a name given to many plants of the leguminous genus Desmodium, which have trifoliate leaves, and joined pods roughened with minute hooked hairs by which the joints adhere to clothing and to the fleece of sheep.

Tick n.

The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.

Ticking. See Ticking, n.

Tick n.

A quick, audible beat, as of a clock.

Any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check.

(Zool.) The whinchat; so called from its note. (Prov. Eng.)

Death tick. (Zool.) See Deathwatch.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... girls are shovel-feeted, and she wishes they could not walk one step, only lie in bed!" exclaimed the largest girl, sitting down on a straw-tick to discuss the matter. "Then we should be cripples, and, tokee! how many ...

— Big and Little Sisters • Theodora R. Jenness

... "A tick," explained Ginger. "A rotter. He was pretty generally barred at school. Personally, I never had any use for him ...

— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse

... six or eight shillings a week. I have often sat with him in the darkness that his "cruizey" lamp could not pierce, while his mutterings to himself of "ay, ay, yes, umpha, oh ay, ay man," came as regularly and monotonously as the tick of his "wag-at-the-wa'" clock. Hendry and he were paid no fixed sum for their services in the Auld Licht kirk, but once a year there was a collection for each of them, and so they jogged along. Though not the only kirk-officer of my time Hendry made the most lasting impression. He ...

— Auld Licht Idyls • J.M. Barrie

... other things, that the story of How the Tortoise Outran the Deer—current among the Amazonian Indians, and among the negroes of the South,—the deer sometimes becoming the Rabbit in the South, and the carapato, or cow-tick, sometimes taking the place of the Tortoise on the Amazonas—has a curious counterpart in the Hottentot Fables.[i15] One day, to quote from Bleek, "the Tortoises held a council how they might hunt Ostriches, and they said: 'Let us, on both sides, stand in ...

— Nights With Uncle Remus - Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation • Joel Chandler Harris

... lady once," said she, "though I don't look like it, my dear. These fal-lals have been over as dainty a body as your own in their day; and that was fifteen years ago to a tick. She gave 'em all to me when she took to the black, and now they shall go to my son's wife. Think of that, you who come from who knows who or where. If they fit you not like a glove, let me ...

— The Forest Lovers • Maurice Hewlett

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