Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tick"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Tick \Tick\, n.
1. A quick, audible beat, as of a clock.

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

3. (Zo["o]l.) The whinchat; -- so called from its note.
[Prov. Eng.]

{Death tick}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Deathwatch}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Tick \Tick\, n. [Abbrev. from ticket.]
Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Tick \Tick\, v. i.
1. To go on trust, or credit.

2. To give tick; to trust.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Tick \Tick\, n. [OE. tike, teke; akin to D. teek, G. zecke. Cf.
{Tike} a tick.] (Zo["o]l.)
(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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Tick \Tick\, n. [LL. techa, teca, L. theca case, Gr. ?, fr. ? to
put. See {Thesis}.]
1. The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which
contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.

2. Ticking. See {Ticking}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Tick \Tick\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ticked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Ticking}.] [Probably of imitative origin; cf. D. tikken, LG.
ticken.]
1. To make a small or repeating noise by beating or
otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.

2. To strike gently; to pat.

Stand not ticking and toying at the branches.
--Latimer.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

tick
n 1: a metallic tapping sound; "he counted the ticks of the
clock" [syn: {ticking}]
2: any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed
proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
3: a light mattress
v 1: make a clicking or ticking sound; "The clock ticked away"
[syn: {click}]
2: make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were
ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" [syn: {ticktock},
{ticktack}, {beat}]
3: sew, as of mattresses; "tick a mattress" [syn: {retick}]


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