Definition of tick

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Tick (n.) 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..

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Hydra :: Hydra (n.) Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker..
Socket :: Socket (n.) Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick..
Pupipara :: Pupipara (n. pl.) A division of Diptera in which the young are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. Called also Homaloptera..
Crabstick :: Crabstick (n.) A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree..
Carapato :: Carapato (n.) A south American tick of the genus Amblyomma. There are several species, very troublesome to man and beast..
Hippobosca :: Hippobosca (n.) A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick.
Burnstickle :: Burnstickle (n.) A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
Yardstick :: Yardstick (n.) A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc..
Cost :: Cost (v. t.) To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life..
Tessera :: Tessera (n.) A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes..
Stick :: Stick (n.) To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck..
Stick :: Stick (n.) To attach by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick on a plaster; to stick a stamp on an envelope; also, to attach in any manner..
Broomstaff :: Broomstaff (n.) A broomstick.
Ticket :: Ticket (v. t.) To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California..
Staff :: Staff (n.) A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike..
Thible :: Thible (n.) A slice; a skimmer; a spatula; a pudding stick.
Staff :: Staff (n.) A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds..
Solubility :: Solubility (n.) The tendency to separate readily into parts by spurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil..
Walker :: Walker (v. t.) Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect..
Brand :: Brand (v. t.) A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct..
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