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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Bog :: Bog (v. t.) To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire..
Woolder :: Woolder (n.) A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding.
Titillate :: Titillate (v. t. & i.) To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather..
Incerative :: Incerative (a.) Cleaving or sticking like wax.
Punch :: Punch (v. t.) To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow..
Sticktail :: Stick-seed (n.) A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets..
Stick :: Stick (v. i.) To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall..
Candlestick :: Candlestick (n.) An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.
Tickle-footed :: Tickle-footed (a.) Uncertain; inconstant; slippery.
Clammy :: Clammy (Compar.) Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration..
Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees..
Bestuck :: Bestuck () imp. & p. p. Bestick.
Chatwood :: Chatwood (n.) Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel.
Dub :: Dub (v. t.) To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth..
Drum :: Drum (n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band..
Drumstick :: Drumstick (n.) Anything resembling a drumstick in form, as the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl..
Stickful :: Stickfuls (pl. ) of Stickfu.
Zirconia :: Zirconia (n.) The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummomd light..
Blank :: Blank (n.) A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
Haze :: Haze (v. i.) To be hazy, or tick with haze..
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