| tic | (n) a local and habitual twitching especially in the face | | tichodroma | (n) wall creepers; in some classifications placed in family Sittidae, Syn. genus Tichodroma | | ticino | (n) an Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland, Syn. Tessin | | tick | (n) a metallic tapping sound, Syn. ticking, Example: he counted the ticks of the clock | | tick | (n) any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals | | tick | (n) a light mattress | | tick | (v) make a sound like a clock or a timer, Syn. ticktack, ticktock, beat, Example: the clocks were ticking; the grandfather clock beat midnight | | tick | (v) sew, Syn. retick, Example: tick a mattress | | ticker | (n) a character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape, Syn. stock ticker | | ticker tape | (n) a continuous thin ribbon of paper on which stock quotes are written |
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| Tic | n. [ F. ] (Med.) A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]
Tic douloureux [ F., fr. tic a knack, a twitching + douloureux painful. ] (Med.) Neuralgia in the face; face ague. See under Face. [ 1913 Webster ]
| | Tical | ‖n. 1. A bean-shaped coin of Siam, worth about sixty cents; also, a weight equal to 236 grains troy. Malcom. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A money of account in China, reckoning at about $1.60; also, a weight of about four ounces avoirdupois. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Tice | n. (Cricket) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Tice | v. t. [ Aphetic form of entice. ] To entice. [ Obs. ] The Coronation. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Ticement | n. Enticement. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] | | Tichorrhine | n. [ Gr. &unr_; a wall + &unr_;, &unr_;, the nose. ] (Paleon.) A fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Tick | n. [ OE. tike, teke; akin to D. teek, G. zecke. Cf. Tike a tick. ] (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). [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
| | Tick | v. i. 1. To go on trust, or credit. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To give tick; to trust. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Tick | n. [ Abbrev. from ticket. ] Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Tick | n. [ LL. techa, teca, L. theca case, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to put. See Thesis. ] 1. The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Ticking. See Ticking, n. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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