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  • English Word Tibiotarsus Definition The large bone between the femur and tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the proximal part of the tarsus with the tibia.
  • English Word Tibrie Definition The pollack.
  • English Word Tic Definition A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic.
  • English Word Tical Definition A bean-shaped coin of Siam, worth about sixty cents; also, a weight equal to 236 grains troy.
  • English Word Tical Definition A money of account in China, reckoning at about $1.60; also, a weight of about four ounces avoirdupois.
  • English Word Tice Definition To entice.
  • English Word Tice Definition A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.
  • English Word Ticement Definition Enticement.
  • English Word Tichorrhine Definition A fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.
  • English Word Tick Definition Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.
  • English Word Tick Definition To go on trust, or credit.
  • English Word Tick Definition To give tick; to trust.
  • English Word Tick Definition 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.
  • English Word Tick Definition 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).
  • English Word Tick Definition The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.
  • English Word Tick Definition Ticking. See Ticking, n.
  • English Word Tick Definition To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.
  • English Word Tick Definition To strike gently; to pat.
  • English Word Tick Definition A quick, audible beat, as of a clock.
  • English Word Tick Definition Any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check.
  • English Word Tick Definition The whinchat; -- so called from its note.
  • English Word Tick Definition To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
  • English Word Ticked Definition of Tick
  • English Word Ticken Definition See Ticking.
  • English Word Ticker Definition One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.
  • English Word Ticket Definition A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.
  • English Word Ticket Definition A little note or notice.
  • English Word Ticket Definition A tradesman's bill or account.
  • English Word Ticket Definition A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.
  • English Word Ticket Definition A label to show the character or price of goods.