Tick
(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.
Dickens. Ticken
(Tick"en) n. See Ticking. [R.] R. Browning.
Ticker
(Tick"er) n. [See Tick.] One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch
or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.
Ticket
(Tick"et) n. [F. étiquette a label, ticket, fr. OF. estiquette, or OF. etiquet, estiquet; both of Teutonic
origin, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, n. & v., and cf. Etiquette, Tick credit.] A small piece of
paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something. Specifically: —
(a) A little note or notice. [Obs. or Local]
He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors
in a ticket on the school doors.
Fuller. (b) A tradesman's bill or account. [Obs.]
Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st
Tick.
Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets
On ticket for his mistress.
J. Cotgrave. (c) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as,
a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.
(d) A label to show the character or price of goods.
(e) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the
like.
(f) (Politics) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party
for election; a ballot. [U. S.]
The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes.
Sarah Franklin Scratched ticket, a ticket from which the names of one or more of the candidates are scratched out.
— Split ticket, a ticket representing different divisions of a party, or containing candidates selected
from two or more parties. — Straight ticket, a ticket containing the regular nominations of a party,
without change. — Ticket day (Com.), the day before the settling or pay day on the stock exchange,
when the names of the actual purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another. [Eng.] Simmonds.
— Ticket of leave, a license or permit given to a convict, or prisoner of the crown, to go at large, and
to labor for himself before the expiration of his sentence, subject to certain specific conditions. [Eng.]
Simmonds. — Ticket porter, a licensed porter wearing a badge by which he may be identified. [Eng.]
Ticket
(Tick"et), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ticketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Ticketing.]
1. To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.
2. To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California. [U. S.]
