Ticketing
(Tick"et*ing), n. A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; — so called from the
tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.
Ticking
(Tick"ing) n. [From Tick a bed cover. Cf. Ticken.] A strong, closely woven linen or cotton
fabric, of which ticks for beds are made. It is usually twilled, and woven in stripes of different colors, as
white and blue; — called also ticken.
Tickle
(Tic"kle) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tickled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tickling ] [Perhaps freq. of tick to beat; pat; but
cf. also AS. citelian to tickle, D. kittelen, G. kitzlen, OHG. chizzilon, chuzzilon, Icel. kitla. Cf. Kittle,
v. t.]
1. To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and
a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
Shak. 2. To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Pope.
Such a nature
Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow
Which he treads on at noon.
Shak. Tickle
(Tic"kle), v. i.
1. To feel titillation.
He with secret joy therefore
Did tickle inwardly in every vein.
Spenser. 2. To excite the sensation of titillation. Shak.
Tickle
(Tic"kle), a.
1. Ticklish; easily tickled. [Obs.]
2. Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant. [Obs.]
The world is now full tickle, sikerly.
Chaucer.
So tickle is the state of earthy things.
Spenser. 3. Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown. [Obs.]
Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it off.
Shak. Tickle-footed
(Tic"kle-foot`ed) a. Uncertain; inconstant; slippery. [Obs. & R.] Beau. & Fl.
Ticklenburg
(Tick"len*burg) n. A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies.
Tickleness
(Tic"kle*ness) n. Unsteadiness. [Obs.]
For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness.
Chaucer. Tickler
(Tic"kler) n.
1. One who, or that which, tickles.
2. Something puzzling or difficult.
