Thysanopter Thy`sa·nop"ter noun (Zoology) One of the Thysanoptera.

Thysanoptera Thy`sa·nop"te·ra noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek ... a fringe + ... a wing.] (Zoology) A division of insects, considered by some writers a distinct order, but regarded by others as belonging to the Hemiptera. They are all of small size, and have narrow, broadly fringed wings with rudimentary nervures. Most of the species feed upon the juices of plants, and some, as those which attack grain, are very injurious to crops. Called also Physopoda . See Thrips .

Thysanopteran Thy`sa·nop"ter·an noun (Zoology) One of the Thysanoptera.

Thysanopterous Thy`sa·nop"ter·ous adjective Of or pertaining to the Thysanoptera.

Thysanura Thys`a·nu"ra noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek ... fringe + ... tail.] (Zoology) An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura . See Lepisma , and Podura .

Thysanuran Thys`a·nu"ran noun (Zoology) One of the Thysanura. Also used adjectively.

Thysanurous Thys`a·nu"rous adjective (Zoology) Of or pertaining to the Thysanura.

Thysbe Thys"be noun [ New Latin , from Latin Thisbe maiden beloved by Pyramus, Greek ....] (Zoology) A common clearwing moth ( Hemaris thysbe ).

Thyself Thy·self" pron. An emphasized form of the personal pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with thou ; as, thou thyself shalt go; that is, thou shalt go, and no other. It is sometimes used, especially in the predicate, without thou , and in the nominative as well as in the objective case.

Thyself shalt see the act.

Shak.

Ere I do thee, thou to thyself wast cruel.

Milton.

Tiar Ti"ar noun [ Confer French tiare . See Tiara .] A tiara. [ Poetic] Milton. Tennyson.

Tiara Ti·a"ra noun [ Latin , from Greek ..., ...; of Persian origin.] 1. A form of headdress worn by the ancient Persians. According to Xenophon, the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned over.

2. The pope's triple crown. It was at first a round, high cap, but was afterward encompassed with a crown, subsequently with a second, and finally with a third. Fig.: The papal dignity.

Tiaraed Ti·a"raed adjective Adorned with, or wearing, a tiara.

Tib-cat Tib"-cat` noun A female cat. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Tibia Tib"i·a noun ; plural Tibiæ . [ Latin ] 1. (Anat.) The inner, or preaxial, and usually the larger, of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.

2. (Zoology) The fourth joint of the leg of an insect. See Illust. under Coleoptera , and under Hexapoda .

3. (Antiq.) A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.

Tibial Tib"i·al adjective [ Latin tibialis , from tibia the shin bone; also, a pipe or flute, originally made of a bone: confer French tibial .] 1. Of or pertaining to a tibia.

2. Of or pertaining to a pipe or flute.

Tibial spur (Zoology) , a spine frequently borne on the tibia of insects. See Illust. under Coleoptera .

Tibial Tib"i·al noun (Anat.) A tibial bone; a tibiale.

Tibiale Tib`i·a"le noun ; plural Tibialia . [ New Latin ] (Anat.) The bone or cartilage of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia and corresponds to a part of the astragalus in man and most mammals.

Tibicinate Ti·bic"i·nate intransitive verb [ Latin tibicinare .] To play on a tibia, or pipe. [ R.]

Tibio- Tib"i·o- A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with , or relation to , the tibia ; as, tibio tarsus, tibio fibular.

Tibiotarsal Tib`i·o·tar"sal adjective (Anat.) (a) Of or pertaining to both to the tibia and the tarsus; as, the tibiotarsal articulation. (b) Of or pertaining to the tibiotarsus.

Tibiotarsus Tib`i·o·tar"sus noun ; plural Tibiotarsi (Anat.) 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.

Tibrie Tib"rie noun (Zoology) The pollack. [ Prov. Eng.]

Tic Tic noun [ French] (Medicine) 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 . Dunglison.

Tic douloureux [ French, from tic a knack, a twitching + douloureux painful.] (Medicine) Neuralgia in the face; face ague. See under Face .

Tical Ti·cal" noun 1. A bean-shaped coin of Siam, worth about sixty cents; also, a weight equal to 236 grains troy. Malcom.

2. A money of account in China, reckoning at about $1.60; also, a weight of about four ounces avoirdupois.

Tice Tice transitive verb [ Aphetic form of entice .] To entice. [ Obsolete] The Coronation.

Tice Tice noun (Cricket) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.

Ticement Tice"ment noun Enticement. [ Obsolete]

Tichorrhine Tich"or·rhine noun [ Greek ... a wall + ..., ..., the nose.] (Paleon.) A fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.

Tick Tick noun [ Abbrev. from ticket .] Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick .

Tick Tick intransitive verb 1. To go on trust, or credit.

2. To give tick; to trust.

Tick Tick noun [ Middle English tike , teke ; akin to Dutch teek , German zecke . Confer Tike a tick.] (Zoology) (a) 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. (b) 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 ).

Tick bean , a small bean used for feeding horses and other animals. -- Tick trefoil (Botany) , a name given to many plants of the leguminous genus Desmodium , which have trifoliate leaves, and joined pods roughened with minute hooked hairs by which the joints adhere to clothing and to the fleece of sheep.

Tick Tick noun [ Late Latin techa , teca , Latin theca case, Greek ..., from ... to put. See Thesis .] 1. The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.

2. Ticking. See Ticking , noun

Tick Tick intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Ticked ; present participle & verbal noun Ticking .] [ Probably of imitative origin; confer Dutch tikken , LG. ticken .] 1. To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.

2. To strike gently; to pat.

Stand not ticking and toying at the branches.

Latimer.

Tick Tick noun 1. A quick, audible beat, as of a clock.

2. Any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check. Dickens.

3. (Zoology) The whinchat; -- so called from its note. [ Prov. Eng.]

Death tick . (Zoology) See Deathwatch .

Tick Tick transitive verb To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.

When I had got all my responsibilities down upon my list, I compared each with the bill and ticked it off.

Dickens.

Ticken Tick"en noun See Ticking . [ R.] R. Browning.

Ticker Tick"er noun [ See Tick .] One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.

Ticker Tick"er noun A telegraphic receiving instrument that automatically prints off stock quotations ( stock ticker ) and other news on a paper ribbon or "tape."

Ticket Tick"et noun [ French étiquette a label, ticket, from Old French estiquette , or Old French etiquet , estiquet ; both of Teutonic origin, and akin to English stick . See Stick , noun & v. , and confer Etiquette , Tick credit.] A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something. Specifically: --

(a) A little note or notice. [ Obsolete or Local]

He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors.

Fuller.

(b) A tradesman's bill or account. [ Obsolete]

» Hence the phrase on ticket , on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick . See 1st Tick .

Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets
On ticket for his mistress.

J. Cotgrave.

(c) 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 .

(d) A label to show the character or price of goods.

(e) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.

(f) (Politics) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot. [ U. S.]

The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes.

Sarah Franklin (1766).

Scratched ticket , a ticket from which the names of one or more of the candidates are scratched out. -- Split ticket , a ticket representing different divisions of a party, or containing candidates selected from two or more parties. -- Straight ticket , a ticket containing the regular nominations of a party, without change. -- Ticket day (Com.) , the day before the settling or pay day on the stock exchange, when the names of the actual purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another. [ Eng.] Simmonds. -- Ticket of leave , a license or permit given to a convict, or prisoner of the crown, to go at large, and to labor for himself before the expiration of his sentence, subject to certain specific conditions. [ Eng.] Simmonds. -- Ticket porter , a licensed porter wearing a badge by which he may be identified. [ Eng.]

Ticket Tick"et transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Ticketed ; present participle & verbal noun Ticketing .] 1. To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.

2. To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California. [ U. S.]

Ticketing Tick"et·ing noun 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 noun [ From Tick a bed cover. Confer 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 transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Tickled ; present participle & verbal noun Tickling .] [ Perhaps freq. of tick to beat; pat; but confer also Anglo-Saxon citelian to tickle, Dutch kittelen , German kitzlen , Old High German chizzilōn , chuzzilōn , Icelandic kitla . Confer Kittle , transitive verb ] 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 intransitive verb 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 adjective 1. Ticklish; easily tickled. [ Obsolete]

2. Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant. [ Obsolete]

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. [ Obsolete]

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 adjective Uncertain; inconstant; slippery. [ Obsolete & R.] Beau. & Fl.

Ticklenburg Tick"len·burg noun A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies.

Tickleness Tic"kle·ness noun Unsteadiness. [ Obsolete]

For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness .

Chaucer.

Tickler Tic"kler noun 1. One who, or that which, tickles.

2. Something puzzling or difficult.

3. A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity. [ Com. Cant, U. S.] Bartlett.

4. A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks. [ Eng.]

Ticklish Tic"klish adjective 1. Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish ; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish . Bacon.

2. Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.

Can any man with comfort lodge in a condition so dismally ticklish ?

Barrow.

3. Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business.

Surely princes had need, in tender matters and ticklish times, to beware what they say.

Bacon.

-- Tic"klish*ly , adverb -- Tic"klish*ness , noun

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