Definition of ticking

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Ticking (n.) 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..

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Adherent :: Adherent (a.) Sticking; clinging; adhering.
Court-plaster :: Court-plaster (n.) Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin..
Adhesiveness :: Adhesiveness (n.) The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.
Incerative :: Incerative (a.) Cleaving or sticking like wax.
Viscid :: Viscid (a.) Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid..
Astrut :: Astrut (a. & adv.) Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner..
Stickit :: Sticking () a. & n. from Stick, v..
Cohesion :: Cohesion (n.) The act or state of sticking together; close union.
Ticken :: Ticken (n.) See Ticking.
Glutination :: Glutination (n.) The act of uniting with glue; sticking together.
Tenacious :: Tenacious (a.) Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive.
Ticktack :: Ticktack (adv.) With a ticking noise, like that of a watch..
Tick :: Tick (n.) Ticking. See Ticking, n..
Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like..
Plaster :: Plaster (n.) An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster..
Deathwatch :: Deathwatch (n.) A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death..
Stick :: Sticking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stic.
Pig-sticking :: Pig-sticking (n.) Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians.
Cohesive :: Cohesive (a.) Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay..
Coherent :: Coherent (a.) Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid.
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